COVID-19 Vaccine Sequencing for Healthcare Workers • 5
providing direct and acute patient care who have high potential for spread to high-risk individuals and eligible caregivers will have had the opportunity to be vaccinated. Detailed information on how eligible Albertans will receive the vaccine will be released prior to each step in Phase 2. The timeline for starting each phase is dependent on vaccine supply and availability. We have more than 103,000 direct AHS employees, and 11,800 staff working in AHS’ wholly- owned subsidiaries, Alberta Precision Laboratories, Carewest and CapitalCare Group. AHS is also supported by nearly 15,100 volunteers and more than 10,800 physicians practicing in Alberta, approximately 8,200 of whom are members of the AHS medical staff as well as Covenant Health, which has nearly direct 11,000 employees and 900 employees. We want to immunize everyone, and we will immunize everyone, but we need the supply to do it. Until then, we will continue to work with what we have. As details related to vaccine availability and sequencing become available, they will be posted here. We are committed to communicating directly with staff and physicians as soon as we know more. We know this is difficult. We appreciate all you do to provide care for Albertans, and we promise you that we are doing everything we can to ensure all AHS staff and physicians who provide direct patient care will receive vaccine just as soon as we are able. Questions If you have a question, please reach out below. Be advised that email volumes are extremely highand responses may be delayed. • Staff: ahsvaccinetaskforce@ahs.ca • Physicians: cmo@ahs.ca
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