UPDATE FROM HSE -
“The programme of vaccination for people in Cohort 4 is commencing the week of March 8th. In line with the recommendations of the High Level Taskforce, this vaccination programme will target people aged 18 to 69 years with medical conditions which place them at very high risk from Covid 19. It also targets young people aged 16 and 17 years with high risk medical conditions. A proportion of people within Disability Services are included within Cohort 4. Vaccination rollout for people aged 16-65 in Disability Services will commence this week in residential facilities initially, with a target of 4,000 vaccinations for this week. The programme of vaccination for Cohort 4 will continue in the coming weeks.”
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Vaccination is proceeding in the wider community at an ever increasing rate. Good progress is being made as staff receive their COVID-19 vaccines.
Staff who haven’t registered as yet are encouraged to do so and registration is through the following portal:
The CoVax portal can be accessed through the following link:
https://healthcloudtrialmaster-15a4d-175b26401cc.force.com/frontlineworkers
Before your start the registration please look at the training document on how to access and utilise the system that is available on the following link:
Training Doc
We have been fortunate in the rate at which vaccines are being made available to our staff. In addition we were pleased to note that Public Health have upgraded vaccination category for our clients in anticipation of the impending rollout of vaccinations for clients.
There have been outbreaks in a small number of our centres and in one instance we sadly lost some of our clients to Covid19 earlier this year. The organisation have been liaising with the HSE and Public Health and we have seen continued strong infection control against Covid-19 infection.
This is only possible through the vigilance and co-operation of our staff, families, clients and external service providers. We encourage everyone to maintain this good level of control as the vaccine rollout progresses. Vaccines are only one piece of the puzzle however and we will need to remain cautious and diligent in the basics of hand washing, maintaining social distance guidelines and wearing our PPE. Thank you, to everyone engaged in this fight to keep us all safe and well, everyone in Sunbeam House Services appreciates the efforts you are all making.
