Register for the Pharmacy Partnership for LTC Program
A COVID-19 vaccine will likely become available in phases over the coming months. Early phases of vaccine distribution will likely focus on health care workers (including LTC staff) with LTC residents to follow.
To facilitate efficient distribution to LTC residents, the federal government is partnering with CVS and Walgreens to deliver and administer the first phase of vaccines to LTC residents. Facilities will need to opt-in to take advantage of this program.
CDC is defining LTC as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), assisted living communities and independent living. Other congregate care settings (e.g., ID/DD) may be able to participate as well and are encouraged to sign up. These partner pharmacies can ensure cold storage of the vaccine until it is ready to be administered and meet all the documentation and reporting requirements. Many LTC pharmacies do not have this capacity yet, but it is anticipated that they will build the capacity for later phases of vaccine distribution and administration. This program is free for LTC facilities.
Vaccination for health care workers will be handled by states. LTC staff who do not get vaccinated through the state program may be eligible to receive the vaccine through this federal long term care vaccination program.
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How to Register
CDC launched the registration process on October 19; it will remain live until October 29, 2020. The registration process can be accessed via the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) for SNFs (an “alert” will be incorporated into the NHSN LTCF COVID-19 module to guide users to the form) and a REDCap portal for ALFs. Both are linked below:
