Aged care operator TLC was on Friday appointed to return to more than 100 homes in Victoria already visited by the two companies and vaccinate residents.
TLC runs aged care homes in Melbourne and Geelong. Its 11 homes had zero coronavirus cases last year during Victoria’s second wave, when 655 people died in private aged care.
TLC Healthcare (TLC) is the first residential aged care provider of its size to complete the vaccination of their 1,500 residents, and 2,000 staff and contractors against COVID-19.
TLC Healthcare (TLC) will be the first residential aged care provider to fully vaccinate their 1,500 residents, 2,000 staff, and contractors against COVID-19.
TLC Healthcare (TLC) is the first residential aged care provider to be given approval to directly administer the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the phase 1A roll-out of the national vaccination program. This is the first agreement of its type, aside from the current contractors engaged by the Government for the phase 1A roll out.
TLC Healthcare (TLC) will be amongst the first aged care providers to vaccinate its residents against COVID-19. TLC has received confirmation that a government team will commence administering the vaccine to its residents at Homestead Estate, at Wallington outside Geelong, on Monday February 22, as early as 8:00am, as part of Phase 1A of the national vaccination roll-out strategy.
