DHEC leadership presents plan to smooth vaccine appointment process to lawmakers
DHEC leadership presents plan to smooth vaccine appointment process to lawmakers By Chris Joseph | January 21, 2021 at 6:19 PM EST - Updated January 22 at 10:33 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The frustration many South Carolinians face while trying to make a COVID-19 vaccine appointment is well known, Department of Health and Environmental Control officials said in a meeting with lawmakers on Thursday.
Now, DHEC says it’s working on a solution.
South Carolina currently uses
VAMS to schedule appointments. It’s a federal program that acting DHEC Director Marshall Taylor said is flawed and slowing the process.
The order includes: certain students of an accredited medical school who have had proper training; registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and physicians who have retired, become inactive, or whose licenses have lapsed within the last five years but were in good standing and licensed dentists who have taken certain COVID-19 vaccination training programs.
DHEC says all these newly qualified people will need to enroll in the federal COVID-19 vaccine program before they can begin.
MUSC spokesperson Heather Woolwine says there are additional roles that non-clinical volunteers may be slotted into, such as crowd control and registration to help move the process along.
The order includes: certain students of an accredited medical school who have had proper training; registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and physicians who have retired, become inactive, or whose licenses have lapsed within the last five years but were in good standing and licensed dentists who have taken certain COVID-19 vaccination training programs.
DHEC says all these newly qualified people will need to enroll in the federal COVID-19 vaccine program before they can begin.
MUSC spokesperson Heather Woolwine says there are additional roles that non-clinical volunteers may be slotted into, such as crowd control and registration to help move the process along.
âMoving at an unacceptable paceâ: S.C. lawmakers form committee to review COVID-19 vaccine rollout (Source: WAVE 3 News) By Kristin Nelson | January 18, 2021 at 7:40 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 7:38 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) â Two South Carolina leaders announced on Monday the formation of a committee that will review the stateâs COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
House Speaker Jay Lucas and Chairman Weston Newton created a Legislative Oversight Ad Hoc Committee which will look over the Department of Health and Environmental Controlâs distribution of the vaccine.
FORGING AHEAD |
Lucas wrote a letter to Marshall Taylor, the acting director of DHEC, to say the rollout has not gone as well as many had hoped.