OTTAWA -- The Queensway Carleton Hospital opened its COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Thursday, the second hospital clinic operating in Ottawa.
The west end hospital tweeted that Maria Paulina Cortes, a medical office assistant from the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, was the first person to get the vaccine at the clinic.
The hospital received its first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday to administer at the clinic.
About 500 people a day will be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Queensway Carleton Hospital COVID-19 vaccination clinic initially. Capacity will increase to 1,000 people per day as vaccine supply increases.
The site will be one of several vaccinating eligible health care and frontline workers identified by the city and the province. The hospital says appointments for the general public are not available at this time.
The Ottawa Hospital is also operating a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for health care and frontline workers at the Civic Campus.
As of Wednesday, patient-facing health care workers (doctors, dentists, nurse practitioners, midwives, physiotherapists, etc.) can pre-register for a vaccination appointment through the Ottawa Public Health's website. They will get an email with the details of their appointment when it is their time in the vaccination sequencing. The sectors include:
- Birth centres
- Community-based specialists
- Death investigation professionals
- Dentistry
- Gynecology/obstetrics, midwifery
- Nurse practitioner led clinics/contract nursing agencies
- Otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat)
- Pharmacies
- Primary care
- Respirology (respiratory therapy)
- Walk-in clinics
Where a health sector has been named, all frontline and patient-facing workers in that sector are included (e.g., custodial, security and reception staff). Where a non-health setting has been named, only workers providing a health service or direct patient care are included.
