Immediate Vaccination Opportunity for Agricultural Workers

 

The Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program has 700 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine available for immediate use, freely available to agricultural workers in the south-central region of Pennsylvania. These vaccines will expire on June 23, 2021, so the Keystone Health Agricultural Worker Program is making a push to get them distributed to those in need as quickly as possible.

If there are more than twenty workers at a location, a Keystone Health worker will coordinate a time to provide vaccinations on-site, says Sharon Kaya, Keystone Health’s Southcentral Regional Outreach Coordinator. On-site service is limited to a 50-mile radius from the clinic’s Gardners, PA, location, listed below. Otherwise, Keystone requests that smaller groups of workers be transported directly to the clinic. Neighbors may coordinate with one another and Keystone to arrange a common, central location to reduce travel times in order to meet the twenty-person minimum on-site requirement.

This program is available to Pennsylvania residents/workers only. Business owners outside the south-central region in Pennsylvania wishing to take advantage of this vaccination program may travel to the Gardners location or may contact Ms. Kaya for additional information about Keystone clinics nearby and how to schedule vaccinations at those locations.

Because this program is grant-funded, some information is needed about each worker prior to scheduling an on-site visit or clinic appointment. Employers are asked to download a copy of the registration workbook (the spreadsheet file in the folder linked here), fill out the information for each worker to be vaccinated, and return it directly to Keystone (not to your local Penn State Extension educator). The spreadsheet is compatible with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and most other third-party spreadsheet programs.
To reserve a time for on-site or in-clinic vaccinations, please contact:

Sharon Kaya, Keystone Agricultural Worker Program
3375 Carlisle Road, Gardners, PA 17324
Office: 717-334-0001 x 8103  Work Cell: 717-860-5785
Email: shakaya@keystonehealth.org

Time is of the essence, as these doses will expire if not used soon. Please contact Keystone by Tuesday, June 8, 2021, to provide the necessary information and to schedule a time.

Keystone wishes to ensure employers and employees alike of the safety and effectiveness of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Short outlines covering the key facts about the vaccine have been provided for review for growers (English), and for workers (English and Spanish).