With hospitalizations and cases increasing as vaccine demand slows, Ballad Health leaders say they are again seeing disturbing trends in regional COVID-19 data.
For the first time in two months, officials with the health system met with local media to deliver an update and to urge residents to follow precautions and seek out one of the approved vaccines.
âSimply put, we really cannot take another surge like weâve seen in the past,â said Chief Operating Officer Eric Deaton. âOur health system was really strained before, and weâre very concerned that we cannot sustain another strain.â
Deaton said employees are starting to recover from the burnout they experienced when COVID-19 hospitalizations spiked to their highest point â more than 350 patients â during the winter. But as numbers rise now, Ballad Health is concerned about continued stress on the health system and particularly on employees.
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Ballad Health is enhancing the hours of its community vaccination centers and extending eligibility guidelines to make COVID-19 vaccines widely accessible and available in the region.
Ballad Healthâs community vaccination center, or CVC, in Kingsport is now open from 2-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon on Fridays. The Elizabethton center is open from 3-8 p.m. Monday -Friday. The health systemâs Virginia center will maintain its established operating hours. All centers require appointments.
As of Wednesday, the Virginia center will be open to all community members over the age of 16 â regardless of contributing health conditions â bringing vaccine centers in the Commonwealth in step with their Tennessee counterparts.