Southwest
Community Health Center opened its new mass COVID-19 vaccination site in
Bridgeport today.
The site at 1020
Fairfield Ave. will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Health care workers from the facility have
administered vaccinations at another site down the road since December, but
they say this new location will allow them to accommodate more people.
The site will be able to give out 400 doses per
day.
Mollie Melbourne, the CEO of Southwest Community Health Center, says
she hopes to expand that number as supply grows.
"We are
thrilled that we have this location available to us, we use it for testing when
we're not doing mass vaccination," Melbourne says. "But we're able to
really move through a very large number of people in a fairly short amount of
time."
Carmen Rivera-Torres, the chief nursing officer at the center, adds,
"It's extremely important that our patients
understand the safety of the vaccine, that we're here for them, that we're here
to stand alongside them, that we will get through this together, as one
community."
All vaccinations
are by appointment only through the
VAMS website.