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RESIDENTS and nursing home staff will be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of February, according to a preliminary HSE schedule on the launch of the vaccine.
Beginning January 11, vaccination teams will travel to each of HIQA’s 583 residential care centers for the elderly, both public and private, to administer two doses to more than 70,000 residents and staff over a six-week period. . This includes 29,456 residents and 41,856 employees.
The first facilities to receive vaccines are in Cork, Tipperary and Dublin, Mayo, Cavan and Offaly.
In Dublin, staff and residents of St Mary’s Hospital in Phoenix Park, where 24 people died from Covid-19 earlier this year, will be among the first in the country to be vaccinated on January 11.
On the same day, Our Lady’s Manor Dalkey, Kiltipper Woods Nursing Home, Glenaulin Nursing Home and TLC Center Santry will be the Dublin facility where vaccines will be administered.
In Cavan, the Breffni Senior Care Center is included, as is the St. Augustine, Mayo Community Nursing Unit.
In Cork, the nursing homes on the list for January 11 are Amberley Home Convalecent & Respite Care, Fairfield Nursing Home, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bon Secour, Cobh Community Hospital,
Cois Abhainn Residential Center and Heather House Community Nursing Unit.
In Offaly, vaccinations will be carried out at St. Teresa’s Nursing Home Cashel, while in Offaly, Gallen Priory Nursing Home Ferbane staff and residents will receive the vaccine.
According to details in a preliminary copy of the vaccine supply chain model, seen by the Irish Independent, based on teams working 5 days a week, it will take three weeks to administer the first dose and another three to administer the second.
It is estimated that each vaccinator will take 12 minutes to administer the vaccine with the goal of injecting 35 vaccines per day.
The national model for providing the Covid-19 vaccine to residents and staff is based on the mobilization of the vaccination teams of each Community Health Organization (CHO) with the support of the staff of the Residential Facilities and other services, including the National Ambulance Service and Acute Hospital Services.
A guidance document issued by the HSE to nursing homes this week noted that nursing homes will need to accept the delivery of the Covid-19 vaccine at their facilities and maintain the cold chain until the arrival of the HSE Covid vaccination team. 19.
Nursing homes have been asked to register all residents with the IBM Salesforce Platform, the IT system that enables vaccine planning and scheduling, while helping to monitor and evaluate the success and effectiveness of the program. IT systems are still under development and the HSE has reported that IT support will be available for residential care settings.
The HSE vaccination teams, which will be composed of a lead vaccinator, one or more vaccinators, a vaccination team observer, and an administrative staff, will be responsible for administering vaccinations to staff and residents.
The HSE model states that smaller sites of 70 or fewer people getting vaccinated will require a team of four people for one day, and by comparison, a site with 106-140 people getting vaccinated will require a team of six people for a day. day. Larger sites will require more days to complete vaccination; and the sites of more than 281 people who were vaccinated required three days. Teams with more than 4 vaccinators (1 team leader, 3 vaccinators) have not been modeled due to space limitations for vaccination and observation space in most residential care centers.
Based on the details outlined on a “typical vaccination day,” the start time will be 08.40am. M. With a preparation time of 20 minutes. Vaccinations will begin at 9 am and continue for two hours. After a fifteen minute break, they will continue for another hour and 45 minutes until lunchtime. After a 30-minute lunch break, immunizations will resume for a three-hour period until approximately 4:30 pm, when a 30-minute time period is allotted for “final activities.” The total vaccination time per day will be six hours and 45 minutes.
Each residential care center will be assigned a day 1 (first vaccination) and a day 21 (second vaccination). All residents and staff will be invited to consent in advance and then receive the vaccine on these dates whenever possible.
On the issue of consent, the document emphasizes the importance of guiding residents through the vaccination process. It notes that “in order to give valid informed consent, a person must be provided with written information, the HSE Vaccine Information Leaflet, about vaccination prior to vaccination, otherwise the consent will not be valid.”
Nursing homes are informed that, in relation to court rooms, the “Clerk of court rooms has confirmed that it is not necessary to request a court order or court consent for the administration of the vaccine” . Those who indicate verbally or otherwise that they do not wish to be vaccinated should not be vaccinated. In the event of a dispute between the individual and their committee that cannot be resolved locally, the matter should be referred to the Clerk of the courtrooms.
Nursing homes that received the vaccine release related documents were advised that they are in draft format, are incomplete, and therefore subject to change.
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