Pastor Chris Hodges talks 20 years of amazing growth at the Church of the Highlands
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
Founding Pastor Chris Hodges led the first service at the Church of the Highlands on Feb. 4, 2001. Twenty years later, it s the largest church in Alabama and one of the largest in the country.
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Twenty years ago, on Feb. 4, 2001, the Church of the Highlands held its first service in the Mountain Brook High School Fine Arts Auditorium.
“We had about 400 show up in the first service,” Pastor Chris Hodges said in an interview Thursday, exactly 20 years later. Fewer attended the second service, one of the few times the church has shrunk since, he recalled.
UAB aims to expand vaccinations by the thousands in weeks ahead
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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UAB hopes to vaccinate up to 17,000 Alabamians a week with expanded sites in the weeks ahead, pending available supply. Alabamians eligible for vaccines who live in the Birmingham area will be able to sign up by appointment.
UAB plans to start out small, with 300 to 400 doses a day, at a new vaccination site at A.H. Parker High School in Birmingham.
Vaccinations at UAB’s site in Hoover started at 800 a day and now may be eventually increased to 2,000 a day.
“It’s actually gone a lot more efficiently than we thought,” said Dr. Sarah Nafziger, UAB Hospital’s vice president hospital for clinical services at a press conference Friday.
Are UAB patients getting COVID-19 vaccine priority?
Clearing up vaccine eligibility confusion By Chasity Maxie | February 3, 2021 at 7:48 PM CST - Updated February 3 at 7:48 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - There seems to be some confusion about the way UAB is handling COVID-19 vaccinations, some believing that only patients of the hospital are getting the vaccine.
A spokesman from UAB said it is not true that only UAB patients are able to get the COVID-19 vaccine at UAB community vaccination sites.
In fact, he said UAB has and will continue to give the vaccine to patients, as well as non-patients, through several partnerships.
COVID-19 vaccines shipping directly to pharmacies
Vaccines shipping directly to pharmacies By Alan Collins | February 3, 2021 at 5:55 PM CST - Updated February 3 at 7:43 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alabama pharmacies could be getting their own supply of COVID vaccines in the coming weeks. President Bidenâs administration announced Tuesday they will be sending vaccine supplies directly to pharmacies.
Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said Wednesday this is great news. The state has been struggling to get more people vaccinated and the biggest problem has been the limited supply of vaccines that are being shipped to the state.
Dr. Harris said there are more than 880 providers to give shots in Alabama unfortunately they are not getting enough vaccine doses to give to all those providers.