MelroseWakefield Hospital began administering the second round of COVID-19 vaccines earlier last week, 21 days after frontline workers received the first dose.
The Lowell General Hospital Alternative Care Site (ACS) received its first patient from Lowell General at approximately 1 p.m. on Monday, January 4, and officials expect more admissions in the coming days.
MelroseWakefield Hospital officially began administering the COVID-19 vaccine to frontline workers working directly with COVID patients last Wednesday afternoon.
Lowell General Hospital received its first delivery of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, December 18, morning and began staff vaccination clinics the next day.
Caregivers at Tufts, as well as colleagues at two sister community hospitals, MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lowell General Hospital, were selected to be vaccinated Tuesday as hospitals start providing the first of the two shots required for the vaccine.
“I’m absolutely going to get it, yes!,” said Dr. Steven Sbardella, the chief medical officer at MelroseWakefield Hospital. “I hope to be one of the first ones to get it.”
Fedex dropped off a small box full of big hopes at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital Tuesday morning.“This is truly the answer we’ve been waiting for,” said Dr. Steven Sbardella, the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer.
Tufts Medical Center is recognized with an ‘A’ Rating in the Fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for meeting the highest patient safety standards.
No one would have been surprised if this year’s Lowell General Hospital Sun Santa Themed Basket Raffle fell a little short of expectations. After all, the baskets could not be viewed in person, and the annual festive drawing was done without an audience.