NEEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Tripadvisor’s global headquarters in Needham is serving as a COVID-19 community vaccination center for eligible Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Mass General Brigham patients.
The travel platform partnered with Newton-Wellesley Hospital to transform the temporarily unoccupied global corporate headquarters into a vaccination site Wednesday.
“Our offices here have been temporarily unoccupied since the onset of the pandemic, so about March. And we have these beautiful facilities here and we figured our employees haven’t been working here — why not use this beautiful space to do good for our local communities,” Senior Communications Manager Elizabeth Monahan said.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital is managing the vaccine program and plans to operate seven days a week.
The hospital says it aims to initially vaccinate 630 patients per day, depending on supply, and has plans to expand access as appropriate.
“It is a little bit of a different feel. But yes, for us as medical professionals, we want to be in a space that allows us to vaccinate as many people in the most efficient manner as possible,” Dr. Jon Snider said. “Every day we’ll be out here vaccinating as long as we continue to have vaccines to give.”
An appointment must be made and there is no walk-in service.
“We are thrilled to partner with our local neighbor, Tripadvisor, so we can quickly provide a potentially life-saving vaccine to our patients,” said Errol R. Norwitz, MD, President of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. “As an organization focused on providing accessible, high-quality medical care, we are grateful to join with an organization like Tripadvisor that shares our goal of meeting the needs of our local community.”
From the world headquarters of a travel company to the DoubleTree Hotel in Danvers, private companies are offering up space to get the public vaccinated.
The ballroom at the hotel is the first mass vaccination site north of Boston. The governor’s office said that 500 people were inoculated there on Wednesday.
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