Prevea Health Partners With UW-Green Bay To Launch Community Coronavirus Vaccine Clinics

From the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay:

January 7, 2021

Released Jan. 7, 2021 from Prevea Health

Prevea Health is partnering with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to launch two community COVID-19 vaccine clinics—one at the Kress Events Center on the UW-Green Bay campus in Green Bay and another in the gymnasium of the UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus in Sheboygan, come late January and early February.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) regulates which members of the community across the state can be vaccinated and when. At this time, DHS has directed health care systems across the state to vaccinate only those they have designated to be in the Phase 1A category – health care providers and skilled nursing facility staff and residents. Learn more about the DHS vaccination prioritization guidelines.

Prevea Health began administering COVID-19 vaccines to its health care workers, as well as those at Prevea’s HSHS Wisconsin hospital partners, on Dec. 16 at HSHS Wisconsin hospital locations throughout the state. As DHS prepares to announce the next phases of vaccination, additional space will be needed to accommodate the vaccination efforts.

“Securing these locations on the university campuses now ensures we will be ready to begin vaccinating members of the community as soon as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services gives us the green light to begin vaccinating those who fall under what DHS will define as the Phase 1B category, and all the phases that will follow,” said Dr. Ashok Rai, President and CEO, Prevea Health. “We are grateful to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for their partnership on this historic and life-saving effort that will help to protect our community members from COVID-19.”

“As a regional university, we should be constantly working to be a positive resource for our community,” said Michael Alexander, Chancellor, UW-Green Bay. “We are proud to partner with Prevea Health to help bring our community closer to moving forward past the pandemic. Like we did with our surge testing site, this is another way that we hope we are helping our region.”

“The partnership between UW-Green Bay and Prevea is perfect example of how our universities will be there to help solve Wisconsin’s most pressing problems. To provide help on COVID-19 vaccination is the Wisconsin Idea in action,” said Tommy Thompson, President, UW-System.

More details will become available on dates and who is in the next phase to be vaccinated as determined by DHS. In the meantime, Prevea encourages patients and members of the public to create a MyPrevea account at myprevea.com as this is where vaccine scheduling will be available.

This press release was produced by the UW-Green Bay. The views expressed here are the author’s own.