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For the next few days, people 55 and up can book and reschedule appointments. By Friday he expects everyone left in that group will have one booked out over the next two weeks.
“If you’re 55 and above and your appointment is still several weeks out into the future, keep looking because more appointments are likely to open up in the coming days,” said Geballe.
Fair Haven Community Health Care has been planning for the expanding age groups. It’s the reason they opened a mass vaccination site at Wilbur Cross High School earlier this month. They are able to reach five times the people they see at their Grand Avenue location.
The mass vaccination site is run by Fair Haven Community Health Care and sixteen schools are holding clinics. Those locations have a school-based health centers, making it easy for nurses to vaccinate school staff.
“Rather than clogging up this site and the other site, we’ll make sure teachers can also go right there on their school site,” said school superintendent Ilene Tracey.
The Wilbur Cross location will run Tuesday through Friday for teachers and the general public.
Today @FairHavenCHC launched a mass #vaccination site at Wilbur Cross. Appointments were for @newhavenpublic1 staff, but they re taking patients and the public four days/week.
“We’ve vaccinated about 25,000 people to date and many of them, thousands of them have already received their second vaccine,” said Martinello.
Yale New Haven Health is using “MyChart,” an electronic medical record system used by some healthcare providers including Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, who’s also offering vaccinations.
“We are actively reaching out all of our patients who are 75 and older to let them know the vaccine is available and we are ready to vaccinate them, but anybody, even if you’re not our patient, we are here to help vaccinate you,” said Dr. Mark Silvestri, chief medical officer for medicine and dental services.
The donation from Connecticut Biotech comes at a time when staff at Fair Haven Community Health Care said it’s not just a shortage of N95s, but it’s the price of the ones available that make the masks hard to stock.
“The challenge we’re now seeing is that the cost has really escalated,” said CEO Dr. Suzanne Lagarde. “We have to be very careful about allocating scarce dollars.”
The masks will be helpful because the organization offers COVID testing and vaccinations, and they’ve been doing dental work as part of their regular offerings.
“With aerosolized procedures, they use N95 masks every day. This is critical to continue to allow them to continue their work,” said Lagarde.