ENTERPRISE â All of the residents and staff of Wallowa Countyâs five long-term care facilities who wanted them have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
And Winding Waters Clinic played a vital role in getting those doses to the individuals who needed them.
Nic Powers, Winding Waters CEO, said the clinic â due to its position as a federally qualified health center â received 100 doses of the Moderna vaccine in early January and took the lead on vaccinating those who are staying at one of the five long-term care facilities in the county.
âWe worked out a plan to vaccinate any and all residents and staff of the long-term care facilities that wanted to get the vaccine,â Powers recently said. âOur staff has been doing that over the last week.â
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ENTERPRISE â The COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Wallowa County.
Wallowa Memorial Hospital received its first shipment of the Moderna vaccine â which late last week received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration â early in the afternoon on Monday, Dec. 21, WMH Communications Director Brooke Pace told the
Chieftain.
The hospital has received 100 doses of the vaccine, which will be administered to health care workers throughout the county â not just at the hospital â in accordance with the rollout plan put together by the Oregon Health Authority.
âI think itâs exciting times that weâre able to have this vaccine so quickly for frontline staff,â said Stacey Karvoski, quality improvement director and nurse at Wallowa Memorial. âHopefully this summer, (or) this spring, it would be available to the general public.â