UNC Lenoir Health Care collected and delivered Christmas presents for 33 children who are part of Guardian Ad Litem.
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UNC Lenoir Healthcare Feastival of Food gathered over 16,000 lbs of food
UNC Lenoir Health Care continued their annual Feastival of Food as an opportunity to give back to the community that made them feel so supported throughout the pandemic.
'We are still in a race against time with this virus'
Lenoir County has low community spread per the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services County Alert System map. “I think the vaccines have significantly contributed to the decline in the number of cases we are seeing in the population and in congregate living facilities,” said Pamela Brown, Director of Lenoir County Health Department. “A lot of this can be attributed to our community’s actions to fight against COVID-19,” said Beverly Jenkins, UNC Lenoir Health Care’s Director of Marketing and Medical Staff Development.
First COVID-19 vaccine doses given at UNC Lenoir
UNC Lenoir distributed the first six doses of the COVID-19 on Thursday after receiving a shipment of 975 doses. Following the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, the first round of vaccine doses are for 1 A employees to include frontline employees who take care of patients with COVID-19. At UNC Lenoir, there are 901 frontline employees who were offered the vaccine. The hospital is not requiring its healthcare workers to take the vaccine.