YONKERS, NY — One of New York State’s community-based pop-up vaccination websites is coming on-line this week in Yonkers.
The websites, at church buildings, neighborhood facilities, public housing complexes and cultural facilities, are anticipated to vaccinate over 25,000 folks all through the week, with extra websites coming on-line each week.
It’s a part of the neighborhood package marketing campaign began in January by the state’s Vaccine Equity Task Force to serve poor communities the place well being care is much less obtainable.
The institution of many of those vaccination websites was made doable by means of partnerships with private and non-private well being care suppliers.
Here’s the record of websites within the Hudson Valley:
Grace Baptist Church
52 S. sixth Ave.
Mt. Vernon, NY
Open Thursday, February 4 and Friday, February 5 – By Appointment Only
Provider Partnership: Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center
Nodine Hill Community Center
140 Fillmore St.
Yonkers, NY
Open Thursday, February 4 – Saturday, February 6 – By Appointment Only
Provider Partnership: Sun River Health
Beulah Baptist Church
92 Catharine St.
Poughkeepsie, NY
Open Friday, February 5 – By Appointment Only
Provider Partnership: WMCHealth Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital
MLK Center
110 Bethune Blvd.
Spring Valley, NY
Open Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6 – By Appointment Only
Provider Partnership: Sun River Health
Newburgh Armory Unity Center
321 S. William St.
Newburgh, NY
Open Saturday, February 6 – By Appointment Only
Provider Partnership: Montefiore St. Luke’s Hospital
Kiley Youth Center
709 Main St.
Peekskill, NY
Open Saturday, February 6 – By Appointment Only
Provider Partnership: New York-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital
As has been the case with earlier pop-up websites, these websites might be re-established in three weeks to manage second doses, state officers stated.
As the federal vaccine provide will increase, New York plans to proceed to create pop-up places at public housing complexes and the greater than 300 church buildings and cultural facilities which have volunteered.
“COVID brought the ugly truth of inequity and inequality in this country to a tipping point,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated in asserting the pop-up clinics. “COVID has killed Black and Latino New Yorkers at a higher rate and that is why these community-based sites are one of New York’s vaccine priorities. More than 9,000 New Yorkers have been vaccinated through this effort and by making the vaccine accessible and delivered by trusted community partners, we can address the skepticism and bring this life-saving vaccine to those who need it most. The light at the end of the tunnel is bright and getting brighter with each new location and each shot administered.”
