With vaccine distribution on the rise in Ohio, healthcare organizations are partnering up to creatively and safely administer the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable populations.One such partnership is between Hamilton County Public Health and Queen City Skilled Care where patients received their COVID-19 vaccine from their own home.On Friday, HCPH gave QCSC two vials of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. QCSC entrusted two nurses to administer the one-dose vaccine to ten QCSC patients at their own homes. The patients were reportedly qualified through state-set standards as well as consent from their families and physicians. "Their children don't want them out," QCSC Clinical Director Susan Noppert said of the qualifying patients. "They don't want to stand in line at a vaccine clinic, because they're compromised. So, we were just so excited and to us as a company, this was an honor. This was an honor for us to be able to be part of something like this."Noppert told WLWT the in-home vaccine visits were completed by QCSC nurses who dawned PPP to administer the shot, waited to observe any side effects and successfully used every dose within an opened vial's six-hour shelf life. The geographic focus was between the Norwood and Anderson areas.Noppert said patients ranged from their 50s to a 100-year-old patient.Queen City Skilled Care said it wants to complete more rounds of at-home vaccine visits in order to reach more qualifying homebound patients. Hamilton County Public Health told WLWT while it is focused on helping the homebound community, any future partnerships would be based on "vaccine eligibly" and cannot guarantee any future events at this time.
With vaccine distribution on the rise in Ohio, healthcare organizations are partnering up to creatively and safely administer the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable populations.
One such partnership is between Hamilton County Public Health and Queen City Skilled Care where patients received their COVID-19 vaccine from their own home.
On Friday, HCPH gave QCSC two vials of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. QCSC entrusted two nurses to administer the one-dose vaccine to ten QCSC patients at their own homes. The patients were reportedly qualified through state-set standards as well as consent from their families and physicians.
"Their children don't want them out," QCSC Clinical Director Susan Noppert said of the qualifying patients. "They don't want to stand in line at a vaccine clinic, because they're compromised. So, we were just so excited and to us as a company, this was an honor. This was an honor for us to be able to be part of something like this."
Noppert told WLWT the in-home vaccine visits were completed by QCSC nurses who dawned PPP to administer the shot, waited to observe any side effects and successfully used every dose within an opened vial's six-hour shelf life. The geographic focus was between the Norwood and Anderson areas.
Noppert said patients ranged from their 50s to a 100-year-old patient.
Queen City Skilled Care said it wants to complete more rounds of at-home vaccine visits in order to reach more qualifying homebound patients. Hamilton County Public Health told WLWT while it is focused on helping the homebound community, any future partnerships would be based on "vaccine eligibly" and cannot guarantee any future events at this time.
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