{"id":112435,"date":"2020-12-28T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=112435"},"modified":"2020-12-28T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T03:45:12","slug":"california-joins-federal-partnership-with-cvs-and-walgreens-to-provide-pfizer-vaccines-to-residents-and-staff-in-long-term-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=112435","title":{"rendered":"California Joins Federal Partnership with CVS and Walgreens to Provide Pfizer Vaccines to Residents and Staff in Long-Term Care Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that California has opted in to the federal COVID-19 Pharmacy Partnership.\u00a0At no cost to the state or local government, CVS and Walgreens will administer the Pfizer vaccine\u00a0to residents and staff in long-term care facilities. Starting today, CVS and Walgreens\u00a0will start with nursing homes,\u00a0which will take an estimated 3-4 weeks,\u00a0and then\u00a0vaccinate staff and residents in assisted living, residential care and other long-term care facilities.<\/p>\n

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\u201cVaccinating those most vulnerable among us is critical to fighting this virus,\u201d said Governor Newsom. \u201cBy leveraging CVS and Walgreens resources, we can effectively deploy vaccines to residents and staff at our long-term care facilities, which are at higher risk of Covid transmission \u2013 and do it at no cost to the state or local government.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program will enable counties to leverage CVS and Walgreens pharmacy staff to administer the vaccine more broadly with pharmacy staff going directly to care facilities.\u00a0Skilled Nursing Facilities will receive vaccine from staff from CVS and Walgreens. Approximately 499 nursing homes will be provided vaccine by CVS and 357 by Walgreens.\u00a0The vaccines will be administered by pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses. Pharmacy technicians are participating under a recent waiver by the Board of Pharmacy that requires appropriate supervision under\u00a0California\u00a0law and specialized training.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis partnership is an opportunity to augment other vaccination efforts at the local level to prioritize our most vulnerable Californians where we are seeing the most outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths,\u201d said Dr. Erica Pan, Interim State Public Health Officer. \u201cThe partnership also allows us to continue to vaccinate other high priority individuals such as our front-line health care workers who are critical to our ongoing response to a surge of cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specifically, the program:<\/p>\n