17 additional hospital sites throughout Ontario will be receiving the Pfizer vaccine in the next two weeks and that includes Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie.
The Province made the announcement of the additional hospital sites beyond UHN and the Ottawa Hospital today.
Ontario is getting up to 90,000 Pfizer BioNTech vaccine doses from the Federal government before the end of the year to continue vaccinating healthcare workers and essential caregivers in hospitals, long term care and retirement homes and other congregate settings that care for seniors.
All of these sites already have the equipment necessary to safely store the Pfizer vaccine at -70 degrees and the required staff are ready to receive and administer vaccines.
The 17 hospital sites set to receive the vaccine include:
- Windsor Regional Hospital
- London Health Sciences Centre
- Grand River Hospital
- Halton Healthcare
- Hamilton Health Sciences
- William Osler Health System
- Trillium Health Partners
- Southlake Regional Health Centre
- Mackenzie Health
- Humber River Hospital
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Toronto East Health Network
- Unity Health Toronto
- Scarborough Health Network
- Lakeridge Health
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
“Following a successful pilot, we are excited to continue onto the next stage of our rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines to Ontarians,” says Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “While we are planning to ensure that everyone who wants a vaccine will receive one, we need to first protect our frontline workers and those providing essential care to our most vulnerable.”
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