{"id":115700,"date":"2023-01-20T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115700"},"modified":"2023-01-20T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:13:36","slug":"lvhn-to-close-covid-19-vaccine-clinics-will-offer-shots-at-lvpg-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115700","title":{"rendered":"LVHN to Close COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics, Will Offer Shots at LVPG Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lehigh Valley, Pa.\u00a0(<\/strong>Jan. 20, 2023)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 On Friday, Feb. 3, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) will officially close its five COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Whitehall, Easton, Hazleton, Pottsville and East Stroudsburg (as well as the network\u2019s Mobile Vaccination Unit).<\/p>\n

Going forward, initial vaccine doses for people 6 months and older and booster shots for people 5 years and older will be available at\u00a0<\/strong>all Lehigh Valley Physician Group (LVPG) primary care (internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics) practices.\u00a0Scheduling for COVID-19 vaccines at these practices will open over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

A majority of the vaccines available will be Pfizer-BioNTech, and individuals will not be able to request the specific brand they want to receive. The Novavax vaccine will no longer be available at any LVHN facilities.<\/p>\n

The community clinics were established by LVHN in spring 2021 to provide easy access to COVID-19 vaccinations. Since December 2020 when the vaccines first became available, LVHN has administered over 620,000 shots (including primary doses and boosters) to adults, teens and children throughout the region.<\/p>\n

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How to schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

Initial vaccine doses and boosters will be given during specific vaccination appointments or as part of yearly physical or sick\/problem visits (as long as the patient is not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19).\u00a0While most LVPG primary care practices will be offering vaccine appointments starting Monday, Feb. 6, some practices may not have doses of the vaccines until later in the month.<\/p>\n

Appointments can be scheduled with an individual\u2019s LVPG practice two ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. By calling their LVPG primary care physician\u2019s office<\/li>\n
  2. By logging in to their MyLVHN account, which is the network\u2019s patient portal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Similar to other vaccinations at LVPG practices, an administration fee will be billed to patients\u2019 insurance policies after they have received their shot.<\/p>\n

    If an individual wants to receive their initial vaccine series or booster through LVHN but they are not a current patient, they can call 888-402-LVHN (5846) to make a new patient appointment. Alternatively, the initial vaccine series and boosters are available at retail pharmacies throughout the region.<\/p>\n

    Lehigh Valley Health Network<\/a>\u00a0(LVHN) includes 13 hospital campuses, four in Allentown, two in Bethlehem, one in Easton, one in East Stroudsburg, one in Hazleton, two in Pottsville, one in Dickson City, and one in\u00a0Lehighton, Pa.; 28 health centers; numerous primary and specialty care physician practices; 20\u00a0ExpressCARE<\/a>\u00a0locations including the area\u2019s only\u00a0Children\u2019s ExpressCARE<\/a>; pharmacy, imaging, home health, rehabilitation and lab services; and preferred provider services through Valley Preferred. Specialty care includes: trauma care for adults and children, burn care at the Regional Burn Center; kidney and pancreas transplants; perinatal\/neonatal, cardiac, cancer, orthopedics, neurology, complex neurosurgery capabilities including national certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and robotic surgery in 10 specialties.\u00a0Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute<\/a>,\u00a0Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute<\/a>,\u00a0Lehigh Valley Institute for Surgical Excellence<\/a>,\u00a0Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lehigh Valley Fleming Neuroscience Institute<\/a>\u00a0physicians provide the most advanced treatments.\u00a0Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute is a member of the\u00a0Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance<\/a>\u00a0(MSK Cancer Alliance)<\/u>, an initiative that helps community providers improve the quality of cancer care and offers access to MSK clinical trials.\u00a0Lehigh Valley Reilly Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a>, the third largest children’s hospital in Pennsylvania, provides care in more than 30 specialties and general pediatrics.\u00a0Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest<\/a>\u00a0is ranked as the region\u2019s No. 1 hospital for nine straight years and has been recognized among Pennsylvania\u2019s top 10 hospitals for nine consecutive years by\u00a0U.S. News & World Report<\/a>. Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)\u2013Cedar Crest,\u00a0LVH\u201317th Street<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0LVH\u2013Muhlenberg<\/a>\u00a0are the region\u2019s only\u00a0Magnet\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0hospitals for nursing excellence. Additional information is available by visiting\u00a0LVHN.org<\/a>\u00a0or following us on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Brian Downs
    \nPublic Information Officer
    \nMarketing and Public Affairs
    \nLehigh Valley Health Network
    \nLVHN.org<\/p>\n

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    Lehigh Valley, Pa.\u00a0(Jan. 20, 2023)\u00a0\u2013 On Friday, Feb. 3, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) will officially close its five COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Whitehall, Easton, Hazleton, Pottsville and East Stroudsburg … Continue reading LVHN to Close COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics, Will Offer Shots at LVPG Practices<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LVHN.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}