WMCHEALTH’S VACCINE COORDINATION

Lenora Clarke, LPN at Westchester Medical Center, administers the Covid vaccine to Catalina Restrepo.

Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) in Valhalla has reached another milestone in the Covid-19 vaccination effort ”“ more than 1 million doses to vaccination sites across the Hudson Valley. 

New York state selected WMCHealth to be the vaccine distribution coordinator for the Hudson Valley Region Hub in its Regional Vaccine Network consisting of more than 300 hospitals, health care organizations, community associations and others to ensure the equitable and efficient distribution of Covid-19 vaccines to Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan counties. 

WMCHealth is currently supporting the work of four, state-run mass vaccination centers and is hosting vaccination efforts on its hospital campuses and collaborating with universities, faith-based institutions, community centers and local organizations to administer vaccines at pop-up sites around the region. To date, WMCHealth has directly administered more than 235,000 vaccinations at these locations.