COVID-19 mobile vaccination clinics available
By Patti Cullen, CAE | November 22, 2023 | All members
Is your long-term care facility in need of a free mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic? Contact Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) for assistance in setting up free mobile vaccination services for residents and staff members. If you are in need, please email:
immunizations@superiorhealthqa.org.
Superior Health currently has a partnership with Cub Pharmacy. They can provide influenza and COVID vaccinations to facilities within the Twin Cities area. They are also reaching out to rural pharmacies to see if they can partner with them to have coverage across more of the state. They are able to schedule ALs/ILs, especially if they are in the Twin Cities and will work to find them a free option.
Long-term care facilities need to be aware of the regulatory requirement to educate and offer the COVID-19 vaccine to staff and residents. This requirement was originally referenced in
QSO-21-19-ALL under the tag F887–COVID Immunization and made permanent through the
COVID-19 Vaccination Final Rule, effective on August 5, 2023. Facilities must educate, offer, and document the consent and/or declination of COVID-19 vaccines for both residents and staff.
To provide more clarity on what it means to
offer the vaccine, if the vaccine is unavailable in the facility, the facility should provide information on opportunities to obtain vaccination externally
(e.g., health department or local retail pharmacy) to individuals. CMS expects that the facility will provide evidence, upon request, of efforts made to make the vaccine available to staff and residents.
As of November 13, 2023, roughly 720,000 doses of the recently available updated COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Minnesota, accounting for just over 13 percent of the population.
Patti Cullen, CAE | President/CEO |
pcullen@careproviders.org | 952-851-2487