{"id":420038,"date":"2021-01-25T07:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=420038"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:33:40","slug":"cvs-health-completes-first-round-of-covid-19-vaccine-doses-at-skilled-nursing-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/cvs-health-completes-first-round-of-covid-19-vaccine-doses-at-skilled-nursing-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS Health Completes First Round of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses at Skilled Nursing Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Company’s long-term care vaccination effort remains on track, with nearly two million doses administered to date<\/h2>\n

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\n WOONSOCKET, R.I.<\/span>, Jan. 25, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has administered the first round of COVID-19 vaccine doses to nearly 8,000 skilled nursing facilities across the country, delivering on goals established early in the process and communicated to participating states and jurisdictions months ago.1\u00a0<\/sup>Administration of second doses is well underway and expected to be complete within four weeks.<\/p>\n

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“We’ve administered nearly two million shots to one of our most vulnerable populations through onsite and, in many cases, room-to-room visits,” said Karen S. Lynch<\/span>, currently Executive Vice President, CVS Health and President, Aetna, who will become the company’s next President and CEO on February 1<\/span>. “Our dedicated health care professionals are reaching long-term care residents and staff as soon as possible based on activation dates selected by the states, while navigating the challenges of a complex rollout.”<\/p>\n

The federal pharmacy partnership program divided long-term care facilities into two categories: 1) skilled nursing, and 2) assisted living and other facilities. For the latter, first doses of COVID-19 vaccines are complete in several states that selected December activation dates including Arkansas<\/span>, Hawaii<\/span>, and New Mexico.1 As made clear by regularly updated data<\/a>\u00a0CVS Health makes publicly available, most states chose activation dates for assisted living and other facilities \u2013 meaning, when CVS Pharmacy teams could first visit \u2013 well into January: <\/p>\n