1March 2021
The clinic will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., by visit just, on Tuesdays and Thursdays for those qualified for
the vaccine. PORTLAND, Maine– On Tuesday, Northern Light Grace Health center’s mass COVID-19 vaccination website will open at the Portland Expo.
Healthcare facility, state, and local leaders got to tour the center on Monday morning.”We are extremely thrilled to open this website tomorrow,” Mercy Health Center Vice President Melissa Skahan stated. The center will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., by visit only, on Tuesdays and Thursdays for those qualified for the vaccine. Eligibility will broaden to those age 60 and older beginning this Wednesday as part of Maine’s new age-based vaccination strategy, which Gov. Janet Mills announced last week.
The Exposition is home to the Maine Red Claws, the NBA G League affiliate of
the Boston Celtics, and is over 24,000 sq. ft.”The Expo provides the benefits of both square footage for the clinic area along with a fantastic place, with access to public transport and onsite parking,”Skahan said when the clinic site was announced in February.
people it will have the ability to reach.”We want people to be able to gain access to this website easily whether they’re strolling, biking, taking the bus and as [Maine
DHHS] Commissioner [Jeanne] Lambrew discussed, neighborhoods of folks we stress may not otherwise have access to a website,”Portland Mayor Kate Snyder said.”We’re so enjoyed be able to provide this site in a densely populated region.” Portland Mayor Kate Snyder says she’s excited to have a this new vaccination site
Mercy Health center has put together videos in various languages so if someone comes in who does not speak English, they will still have the ability to see what the process appears like and get immunized. Authorities say they want to get as lots of people vaccinated as possible and today’s visits are already full.As of now, folks getting vaccinated at the Portland Expo will receive the Pfizer vaccine. Northern Light Health states people will require to register for a visit ahead of time. Registration is open now for those eligible through online registration or by calling the Northern Light Health call center at 207-204-8551.
reacted to that in a declaration. We did anticipate high traffic on this very first full day that Mainers age 60 and over had the ability to sign up for vaccine. In anticipation of this we added a third-party vendor’s virtual waiting room tool to the front-endof our
website. This tool was created to help keep our vaccine registration website from slowing or shutting down due to what we understood would be a
large volume of traffic, again with this being the first complete day that those who are 60 and above could schedule vaccination visits. The virtual waiting location operated as we anticipated because it balanced the load of traffic streaming on to our web site. Regrettably, the wait estimator was inaccurate and caused many individuals to receive fake, prolonged estimates of wait time. We disabled the wait time estimator and are now working with the vendor to repair what took place. We expect a service to this issue before the next round of appointment registrations. The virtual waiting space was included based upon previous weeks’ experience when large volumes of traffic caused the vaccine visit registration website to either perform too gradually or close down completely. This feature was anticipated to provide peace of mind and instead triggered confusion for some, For that we ask forgiveness. We are working now with our vendor to guarantee the wait estimator is either fixed or disabled for the next round of vaccine registrations. Above all, we thank individuals for their persistence and understanding
and stay delighted that so many Maine individuals are distressed to receive vaccine for COVID-19.