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FULL SPEED AHEAD FOR VACCINATIONS Vaccinating staff against COVID-19 is a top priority for Hall & Prior, who have been working hard throughout the pandemic to keep residents and staff safe and well. By Beverly Ligman. Images by Ammon Creative.
Throughout August and September, Hall & Prior has been holding in-house vaccination clinics at 11 of its homes across Perth to make it both easy and time-efficient for staff to get vaccinated. On Monday, August 2, a special clinic was held at Hall & Prior’s Tuohy Aged Care Home in Midland to administer the first vaccines to staff. The organisation’s two regional homes in Donnybrook and Albany are also holding COVID-19 vaccination clinics for staff in the south west and Great Southern regions of the state. Hall & Prior owns and operates 30 homes across WA and NSW, and has taken the initiative to vaccinate its staff to protect the vulnerable residents they care for in their homes. Hall & Prior Chief Executive Officer Graeme Prior said protecting staff from COVID-19 has the doubly vital benefit of protecting the Group’s residents.
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“Giving our residential aged care home staff the vaccine as a priority will help protect our residents who are some of the most vulnerable in our society,” Mr Prior said. “We’re very excited to be able to do this. We thank the Prime Minister for taking the steps to mandate all aged care staff to be vaccinated and the Commonwealth Department of Health for giving Hall & Prior the right under contract to deliver the Pfizer vaccine from the national stockpile to our staff. ” Hall & Prior is an industry-leader in vaccinations - they have championed a free influenza vaccine for staff for the past decade, resulting in outstanding immunisation rates across the Group.
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Giving our residential aged care home staff the vaccine as a priority will help protect . . . some of the most vulnerable in our society. - Graeme Prior, CEO Hall & Prior
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he Australian government has made it mandatory for all staff in aged care facilities to have received at least their first vaccination by September 17. Taking this as the impetus to be a leader in the field, Hall & Prior is proud to be the first Commonwealth-approved aged care provider in WA to offer in-house COVID-19 vaccinations to its staff - and more than meet the target set by Canberra.
