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Choptank Health The Phase 2 group of 700 health centers “Our priority is ensuring our patients—
recently invited to participate in this including some of the Shore’s most
Chosen for Federal program include Choptank Health and vulnerable populations—have the
Direct Distribution those that serve high proportions of low opportunity to receive the vaccine. We
income and minority patients; provide have been providing vaccines to our
of COVID-19 services to rural/frontier populations; patients since late January. Th ese addi-
Vaccine Program operate Tribal/Urban Indian Health tional doses, when received over the
Programs; and utilize mobile vans to next six weeks, will help us to continue
Choptank Community Health System deliver services. to provide vaccinations for our rural
announced y that the health center is one communities”
“Choptank Community Health is
of 12 in Maryland and 700 nationwide
pleased to be one of the 700 health Choptank Health anticipates the consid-
receiving federally funded vaccines for
centers selected to participate in the next erable ramp-up by the mid- to late-April
direct distribution as a Federally-Quali-
phase of the Health Center COVID- and is working on plans for distribution
fied Health Center invited to participate

19 Vaccine Program,” said Choptank of these additional doses, with more
in the next phase of the Health Center
Community Health System CEO Sara information released when plans are
COVID-19 Vaccine Program.
Rich. “As a rural health center, we fi nalized.
The Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine provide services to more than 29,000

Program represents a partnership residents of Caroline, Dorchester, and
between Health Resources and Services Talbot Counties.
Administration (HRSA) and the Centers (continued on page 55)
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). The program is incrementally

beginning to select HRSA-funded health
centers specializing in caring for hard- BREAKING THE CHAINS
to-reach and disproportionately aff ected
populations. The program’s goal is to
address health equity in vaccine delivery
by providing a direct supply of COVID-
19 vaccines to health centers that serve
these populations, including Choptank
Health.

Invited health centers participating in
this new phase of the initiative were
selected based on different priority crite-

ria than the previously selected partici-
pants for the program.

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