WMCHealth gives 100,000th COVID-19 Vaccination at County Center

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A new milestone in the pandemic was reached Thursday when Catalina Restrepo of Valley Cottage received the 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine dose to be administered at the New York State mass vaccination site in Westchester.

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) has been collaborating with New York State and Westchester County at the Westchester County Center since vaccination operations began there in January. WMCHealth workforce members including clinicians, pharmacists, data analysts and others are working in tandem with hundreds of volunteers to ensure all those eligible to receive the vaccine do so in a safe and efficient manner.

WMCHealth partners with VolunteerNY on Westchester County Center volunteer recruitment, training and scheduling.

As the coordinator for the Hudson Valley Region Hub of the New York State Regional Vaccine Network, WMCHealth is leading the Hudson Valley’s largest-ever collaboration of healthcare providers and logistics effort to ensure the safe, equitable and efficient distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine across Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan counties. In addition, WMCHealth launched the 75-member Health Equity Task Force, with members meeting weekly to identify vaccine access and distribution barriers and develop solutions to remove them, particularly impediments that affect underserved communities.

Vaccine Eligibility and Access

For more information on eligibility and mass vaccination sites please visit: Am-I-Eligible.COVID19Vaccine.Health.NY.gov, or call the New York State Vaccination Hotline at 1-833-NYS-4VAX (1-833-697-48290).

Earlier this month, WMCHealth debuted an interactive directory to assist Hudson Valley residents with accessing COVID-19 vaccinations, the only resource of this type available in the region. The map is available as part of the WMCHealth online resource https://COVIDInfo.WMCHealth.org/Vaccination that includes a wide variety of information about vaccine eligibility, safety and efficacy, as well as COVID care and treatments.

About Westchester Medical Center Health Network

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, Comprehensive and Primary Stroke Centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org or follow at WMCHealth at Facebook.com/WMCHealth or Instagram.com/WMCHealth.

WMCHealth has distributed thousands of COVID-19 vaccination doses throughout the Hudson Valley and has managed vaccine operations at schools, churches and mass vaccination sites around the region.