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新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health Provides Vaccine Outreach to Oak Park

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  • 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health is focusing on providing COVID-19 vaccines to people who don't have easy access to health care, like Woodland residents and people in Sacramento who are homeless
  • Temporary Oak Park clinic vaccinated 100 people on its first day
  • Weekly clinics are coming to South Sacramento and Oak Park

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health has opened a COVID-19 community vaccination clinic in Sacramento鈥檚 Oak Park neighborhood 鈥 the latest in a series of rapidly emerging initiatives to immunize the medically underserved across the region.

On March 12, 100 community members received the Moderna vaccine at , in the diverse neighborhood adjacent to .

The effort came together after texted with an urgent plea: Oak Park needs access to vaccines. Schneier, whose City Council district includes Oak Park, quickly introduced Meeks to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health CEO , and within four weeks the clinic was established.

鈥溞掳拿帕喜誓谀恍畔 Davis has been a tremendous blessing,鈥 Meeks said. 鈥淣ot only to City Church but to the community at large and to even beyond Oak Park.鈥

The weekly clinic is one of a growing number of COVID-19 vaccination initiatives where 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health partners with community organizations in Yolo and Sacramento counties. Since early February, more than 10,000 doses have been administered.

Within the next few weeks, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health and its community partners will open additional weekly clinics at in Oak Park and in South Sacramento.

鈥淚t means a lot to us that you鈥檙e here, we鈥檙e happy that we鈥檙e partnering with you,鈥 La Familia Executive Director Rachael Rios told a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health representative during a site visit this week at her center. The organization provides programs and services to Latino immigrants, Middle Eastern refugees and others. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e trusted in the community and that means a lot to the community, they know 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis.鈥

Many of the shots administered by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health and its partners are being given to underserved populations such as Blacks and Latinos, two groups that have consistently shown high percentages of COVID-19 infections and deaths in California.

鈥淲e are all in this together鈥

鈥淭he pandemic has exposed deep and disturbing demographic disparities in health care that we鈥檙e fully responding to as an institution,鈥 said Lubarsky, who is also 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis vice chancellor for health sciences. 鈥淲e鈥檝e joined with our local partners to find innovative approaches to vaccines and testing. We will continue the important work of advancing health equity and eliminating gaps in health outcomes for vulnerable patients throughout our region.鈥

He added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e all in this together for our patients and our community.鈥

Providing vaccine doses to the underserved is a priority at many levels, such as the .

In addition to the three new clinics, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health is a key partner with , , , , the , the and other organizations in pop-up clinics in parking lots and school auditoriums.

The clinics often involve faculty and student volunteers from the and the who are eager to administer shots, help monitor patients after their injections and register them for a follow-up dose.

At a drive-through clinic at Pioneer High School in Woodland in February, students and School of Medicine faculty members Sharad Jain, Michael Wilkes, and Saul Schaefer helped administer 737 first-dose Pfizer doses to the medically underserved.

Workers at vaccine clinic pose for photo in front of sign.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health volunteers served at a drive-through clinic in Woodland in February

鈥淭his past year has been difficult for everyone with the pandemic, so it felt rewarding giving vaccines and advocating for a safer and hopeful 2021,鈥 said Sharmeen Saeed, who expects to graduate this year from the Master鈥檚 Entry Program in Nursing.

At another drive through, at La Familia Counseling Center, students helped administer 156 doses in partnership with the , the Sacramento County Department of Public Health, the , and volunteer nurses from .

鈥淭he goal was to give Sacramento鈥檚 Latinx community greater access to the COVID-19 vaccine,鈥 said first-year medical student Sarah Spivack who served at the La Familia clinic. 鈥淭his event was part of a broader push for more equitable vaccine distribution and underscores the need for COVID-19 vaccination clinics in diverse communities around Sacramento.鈥

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health also reaches the unhoused population during the pandemic.

Last week, physicians from the and 鈥 in partnership with Sacramento Councilwoman 鈥 offered 100 doses of the vaccine to people experiencing homelessness in the W-X corridor near downtown Sacramento.

Transforming City Church into a clinic

Establishing the clinic at City Church, at the corner of 39th Street and 4th Avenue, involved dozens of hard-working congregants and a multidisciplinary team of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health employees committed to making a difference.

鈥淲e had our facilities team, our IT team, our ambulatory operations team, our nursing leadership, our physician leadership, all do a joint site visit along with our pharmacists and a number of folks to plan the clinic together,鈥 said Michael Condrin, chief operator officer of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health Ambulatory Care, who oversees the community clinics.

Pharmacists early on tried to predict which vaccine would be available and how to store it. Information Technology crews created a customized Electronic Health Record system and wired the church to resemble a secure 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Heath telecommunications network.

Meanwhile, church members distributed informational fliers provided by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health throughout the neighborhood in a door-to-door effort to sign up people for the vaccine. The personalized approach is vital for a neighborhood where older residents lack technological tools and a number of Black residents hesitate to receive the vaccine, said Chaplain Tracee Lewis.

During a walk through at McClatchy Park, Lewis encountered more negative than positive responses when she told people about the clinic.

One woman, who described herself as 鈥渧ery educated,鈥 immediately resisted Lewis鈥 invitation to register for the shot. The woman said she didn鈥檛 trust the vaccine because it was developed so fast. She wouldn鈥檛 even take one of Lewis鈥 fact sheets.

Lewis left on respectful terms.

鈥淚t鈥檚 sad,鈥 Lewis said later. 鈥淣ot only is it lack of knowledge, but the same research she said she鈥檚 reading about can be contradictory.鈥

Lewis said there was no point in debating the woman. 鈥淵es, this was fast-tracked,鈥 she acknowledged. 鈥淏ut the other thing we have to realize is that you have a choice. And right now we鈥檙e living with a choice of life and death.鈥

Woman sitting in car receives vaccine.
A patient receives her COVID-19 in the City Church parking lot.

Opening day success

On the clinic鈥檚 opening day, a smiling Lewis greeted those she signed up. She watched as community members worked their way through an efficient operation staffed by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis employees 鈥 from the registration desk, to the vaccination table, to the monitoring area.

The people getting vaccines described themselves as grateful and relieved for the shot. They loved the convenient neighborhood location.

Cynthia McKinney, an insurance agent, said some family members were concerned when she told them she had signed up for the vaccine. They asked McKinney if she was sure about her decision and encouraged her to pray about it. Her family was alluding to the 20th century , a U.S. government research study that monitored syphilis in Black men but effectively offered no medical care.

McKinney said she trusts the COVID-19 vaccine. 鈥淚 know a lot of people that got the shots so far and they are as healthy as a lark,鈥 she said. 鈥淚鈥檓 just trusting that it鈥檚 OK.鈥

Her sister, Vanita Jasper, who owns Elegant Ladies beauty salon on Florin Mall Drive, said getting the vaccine is important because she wants to protect herself and her clients. And because her grandchildren would soon be going back to the classroom.

In addition, Jasper and McKinney are eager to spend quality time with their sister in Hayward, who is battling cancer. 鈥淲e haven鈥檛 been able to see her, even to reach out and touch her,鈥 McKinney said.

Nalini Raj, who lives five minutes from the church, said she longs to hold her granddaughter who was born at the outset of the pandemic. Her husband, Deo Raj, an appliance repairman in Oak Park, said he wants to feel safer when he enters customers鈥 homes.

Some of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health employees at the church clinic gained extensive experience working with COVID-19 vaccinations 鈥 first, when more than 14,000 employees were inoculated, and later, as tens of thousands of patients received their shots.

The City Church experience, though, felt different than the other clinics for registered nurse Shannon Romero.

鈥淔or us as health care workers, to get out in the community and really be able to serve and meet them face to face, they鈥檙e very appreciative,鈥 she said. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 just as important and heartfelt and meaningful to us."

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Edwin Garcia is a senior public information officer for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health. He can be reached by email or phone, 916-734-9323

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