In partnership with six regional Quality Improvement Organizations, pharmacists and their staffs in 23 CPESN® local networks adminstered nearly 40,000 vaccines to residents and staff of long-term care facilities across the country. Lindsay Christensen, CPESN Minnesota Executive Director, served as program support lead and she shares details in this short video about the more than 600 clinics that expanded access and improved safety in these care settings.

Wyatt Walker, CPESN® Louisiana Managing Network Facilitator and pharmacist/owner at Walker's Drug Store in Livonia, LA, says administering COVID-19 at four nursing homes turned a profit of about $20K for his store. The vaccines were administerd under the CPESN partnership with Alliant Health Solutions, a Quality Improvement Organization.

CPESN® USA has partnerships with six regional Quality Improvement Organizations for pharmacies in 23 networks to help long-term care facilities increase current COVID-19 vaccination rates for residents and staff. Cindy Warriner, a CPESN Virginia facilitator, and a senior pharmacist consultant with Health Quality Innovators, says the partnerships showcases for all federal health decision makers the value that community pharmacy brings to 65+ patients.