Bethany Community Ministries to Host COVID-19 Vaccine Event on Saturday, March 13

PITTSBURGH, PA (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — Bethany Community Ministries (BCM), as part of its broader efforts to provide medical assistance to Pittsburgh’s resilient communities, has scheduled a COVID-19 vaccination event Saturday, March 13, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Homewood community.

 

Anticipating a pivot to COVID-19 vaccinations, at the end of last year BCM initiated flu vaccination and health-screening clinics in subsidized senior congregated living spaces throughout the sector. During the 20 BCM health clinics and COVID-19 vaccination events, BCM worked in effective partnership with The Pittsburgh Black Nurses in Action, Duquesne School of Pharmacy, Pitt Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing, Soul Pitt Media, Gateway Medical Society, The Highmark Foundation, AHN, ACHD, Chi Eta Phi and now UPMC.

 

BCM has established a prototype for vaccinating seniors living in congregate living sites while addressing the Social Determinants of Health that impact senior communities such as social isolation and suffering in silence without access to potentially life-saving vaccines. Additionally, BCM provides patient education on CDC regulations and COVID-19 related issues. Because of its established relationships throughout the community, BCM leverages its critical understanding of strategy service that leads to success in helping to increasingly dispel fear surrounding the vaccine.

 

This announcement comes with the collaboration of BCM’s partnerships with UPMC, the Highmark Foundation, Gateway Medical Society, Soul Pitt Media, and a host of professional people of color committed to bringing the COVID-19 vaccine to the Homewood community.  BCM’s Senior Care Coordination program is diligently collaborating and connecting all relationships to make Allegheny County Black communities healthy and safe for our seniors and their families.

 

For more information, please call 412-867-1604