Oakland County Begins Vaccinating Long-Term Care Staff, Residents

OAKLAND COUNTY, MI — The Oakland County Health Division is partnering with Ready Nursing Solutions to help the county administer COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care staff and residents as well as homebound seniors, officials said Thursday.

This announcement comes as the Oakland County Health Division reported that over 101,000 Oakland County senior residents 65 years and older received their first dose and all 23,000 school personnel on the Health Division's Save Your Spot list received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine or an invitation to a vaccination appointment.

"We still have much to do, but we are making progress offering COVID vaccine to our senior citizens, teachers, and other eligible individuals," Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter said. "Our partnership with Ready Nursing Solutions as a third vaccine becomes available will help us to continue our steady march toward the goal of protecting our residents and putting this pandemic behind us."

There are about 70 long-term care centers in Oakland County that need COVID vaccine because they are not covered by the federal contract with Walgreens and CVS, county officials said. The Oakland County Health Division has administered COVID vaccine at 36 of the long-term care centers so far, even as it operates multiple vaccine clinics seven days a week throughout the county.

Ready Nursing Solutions will provide nurses who will assist the Health Division with administering COVID vaccine at the remaining centers and will begin giving doses to homebound seniors in Oakland County, officials said.

"To vaccinate more than 1 million eligible individuals in Oakland County requires sharing the workload with our public and private partners," Oakland County Health and Human Services Director Leigh-Anne Stafford said. "We are so pleased to be working with Ready Nursing Solutions to help us get vaccines in arms of at-risk seniors that much sooner."

To sign up an Oakland County homebound senior citizen to receive a COVID vaccine from Ready Nursing Solutions, call 810-331-0902 to make an appointment directly with Ready Nursing Solutions.

To register online, go to GetReadyVacine.com and complete the Patient Intake Form.

"The communities we serve are often underserved or overlooked. Our goal with Ready Nursing Solutions is to ensure that our most vulnerable groups have access to the COVID-19 vaccine at no cost," Ready Nursing Solutions CEO Mark Smith said. "We are thrilled to be in partnership with Oakland County to offer mobile vaccination services to residents of assisted living communities, long term care facilities, and group homes."