Health Care

Cape Fear Valley Health Pavilion North ExpressCare to become temporary vaccine-only location

By Staff Report, posted 3 years ago

The Cape Fear Valley Health Pavilion North (HPN) ExpressCare will temporarily close, starting Friday, Oct. 1, to all non-vaccination related visits. 

“The clinic closure is in response to the high demand for COVID-19 vaccine boosters at this vaccine clinic location,” said Christopher Tart, vice president of Pharmacy and the Cancer Center.

The Cancer Center, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, and Health Pavilion North Family Care are among services inside the facility that will remain open. 

“We saw more than 400 people come to this location for their booster shots on Tuesday,” Tart said. “We want to be able to provide these boosters to the community as quickly and efficiently as possible, switching over to an all-vaccination operation at this location will allow us to do that.”

The vaccination clinic will be open for appointments Tuesday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and appointments can be made online for all the Cape Fear Valley COVID-19 vaccination clinics at https://www.capefearvalley.com/coronavirus/index.aspx. The clinics also allow walk-ins until they reach capacity. 

Individuals eligible for the COVID-19 booster and third doses include individuals 65 years and older, residents in long-term care settings, individuals with underlying medical conditions between the ages of 50 and 64, and those at high risk for severe cases of COVID-19 between the ages of 18 to 49. 

Those seeking booster shots must be at least six months past the completion of their first two doses of Pfizer vaccines. Only the Pfizer vaccine has been approved for booster shots and those who received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine can only receive a third shot if they are immunocompromised, a press release by Cape Fear Valley Health stated. 

The remaining Cape Fear Valley Health ExpressCare locations in the Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital and at Bladen County Hospital in Elizabethtown are to remain open. 

Ico insights

INSIGHTS

SPONSORS' CONTENT

In The Current Issue

Tech for a cause: 2025 Tech ID Day showcases new innovations while supporting warfighters and a good cause

To wrap up the first day, attendees were able to meet up for a social event at the Brad Halling American Whiskey Ko. in Southern Pines where a $10,000 check was presented to the Joint Special Operations Foundation for their scholarship fund. Photo pr


Gathering great ideas: Business incubator coming to the 400 block of Hay Street

The three-story, 200,000 square-foot business incubator space is located at 420 Maiden Lane. The building features an elevator, construction has begun on handicap bathrooms for the first floor and the second and third floors feature window walls offering views of Segra Stadium.


Planting seeds of H.O.P.E: FTCC's Hope, Opportunity, Prosperity through Education Program provides empowerment through hands-on learning

Image provided by FTCCFocused on building the local workforce and streamlining the education process through real world learning, the Hope, Opportunity, Prosperity through Education Program at Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC), also kno