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How Penn Medicine is getting COVID-19 vaccines to communities that need it most

Engaging faith communities to reduce vaccination disparities

Engaging faith communities to reduce vaccination disparities In partnership with Mercy Philadelphia and community faith leaders, Penn Medicine held a vaccine clinic at the Church of Christian Compassion that reached 500 people in West Philadelphia. At least two more such events are planned. The event was the result of a close partnership among Penn Medicine, Mercy Philadelphia, and faith leaders from West and Southwest Philadelphia. At the Church of Christian Compassion on Cedar Street, volunteers from Penn Medicine, Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, and the church began arriving in the chilly dark of 6 a.m. Saturday. Clad in black T-shirts printed with “Mercy & Penn Medicine & The Community #VaccineCollaborative,” they set up tables and chairs in the church’s lobby and classrooms, assembled supplies and paperwork, and hung dark coverings over the windows to lend privacy to those inside. Converting the church into a makeshift medica

Black church leaders urge congregants to get vaccinated

WHYY By Ruby K. Lane and Katherine Kirby, outside a church in West Philadelphia right after they received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 13, 2021. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) More than 500 people registered to get vaccinated at a West Philadelphia church on Saturday, the first of three planned mass vaccination sites created by area hospitals in partnership with neighborhood faith leaders. Cynthia Raymond came with her husband to the Church of Christian Compassion, at 62nd and Cedar streets, from their home in the Overbrook neighborhood. She had been trying to get vaccinated for a month. “This was my best opportunity. I put our names on five waiting lists,” said Raymond. “Then I called my pastor, and I’m here.”

Philadelphia churches help vaccinate Black residents against COVID-19