Worcester, Framingham organizations sharing $9M for vaccine equity funding
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UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester
Five entities in Worcester including UMass Medical School and the Family Health Center of Worcester have received a share of nearly $9 million in state funding announced Thursday to help people access coronavirus vaccines in hard-hit communities.
Those two recipients were joined by Worcester counterparts AIDS Project Worcester, Centro and Seven Hills Behavioral Health among roughly two dozen such groups statewide that are being relied upon to help increase awareness and access to vaccines in 20 of the hardest-hit Massachusetts communities, including Fitchburg, Framingham, Leominster and Worcester.
Each organization will use its share of the funding to provide guidance about vaccine eligibility, assistance in registering online and translation services, among others. In some cases, the organizations will directly administer vaccinations to groups not available through other outreach efforts.
Another 13 groups received nearly $2 million as part of a partnership between the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Boston health consultant group Health Resources in Action aimed specifically at addressing the needs of minority communities in the 20 cities and towns the state has deemed at the highest risk during the pandemic. Those recipients include the Framingham nonprofit Jewish Family Service of Metrowest.
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