Mar 1, 2021 / 08:22 PM EST
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) The Noblesville Fire Department says the Homebound Hoosier EMS Vaccine Administration Program will help residents in the area who are unable to leave their homes get vaccinated.
The program is a cooperative public health effort within the state of Indiana.
“It’s really important that we are able to get to those people,” said Noblesville Fire Department Chief of EMS James Macky.
The fire department says they’re teaming up with the Hamilton County Health Department to reach these at-risk or hard-to-reach people.
“The thing that came to mind is the fact that we have elderly people within our communities that may be homebound,” said Macky. “They can’t get out to actually get a vaccination and so the question started to come up, ‘How do we handle that? How do we get to those people? ”