On Tuesday, February 9th, CVS joined Willow Haven once again to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. This was their second visit here, but it was my first opportunity to receive the first round of the vaccine. Jeff Bradley, President of Thrive, also joined to receive his first round. Arriving with my paperwork already filled out, the whole experience from start-to-finish was short and honestly painless.
Willow Haven is geographically close to me, but it was the first time I’ve been to one of our facilities in over a year. Although my time spent there was short to maintain social distancing, it was good to see some of our staff outside of Zoom.
Kat Reinholdt, Willow Haven’s Treatment Director, was on-site the entire day and provided the following recap of the day:
On Tuesday, February 9th, Willow Haven had our second COVID Vaccination clinic with CVS. We had a total of ten staff and three clients complete their second dose of the Moderna vaccine. We also had two clients and two Thrive employees complete their first dose. The second time around seemed to go much smoother and we did not experience any hiccups. Our vaccinator was finished with all the doses by 12pm, approximately two hours after he had arrived. There was no disruption to normal programming other than a few increased bodies in the facility. We have had positive experiences with CVS during both the in-house clinics and look forward to our third and final one in March.
Jeff Bradley - President - Leadership Team
Jody Langer - Creative Technical Coordinator - Leadership Team
Joe Abbott - Certified Peer Specialist - Willow Haven
The word “grateful” doesn’t begin to describe how I felt receiving this vaccine. This is an important step in the right direction to getting back to life as we knew it before COVID. Thank you to the staff at Willow Haven, CVS for administering the vaccine, and Thrive as a whole. There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes actions that took place to get the vaccines to our facilities which includes a lot of Thrive staff working together. Thank you everyone!