Carris Health begins vaccinating frontline workers, two clinics for high-priority employees planned this week
Three Carris Health – Rice Memorial Hospital employees, two nurses and a doctor, were the first to receive COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday morning. One of them called the start of vaccinations a celebration. After the public event to begin the vaccinations, Carris Health employees continued receiving vaccinations throughout the day Tuesday. 3:05 pm, Dec. 29, 2020 ×
Dr. Fred Hund, left, a hospitalist at Carris Health – Rice Memorial Hospital, receives his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered Tuesday morning by nurse Nicole Aleshire in the Carris Health Lakeland Auditorium in Willmar. Hund was one of three frontline Carris Health workers to first receive the COVID-19 vaccine.