PROVIDENCE (AP) – Rhode Island’s two largest health care organizations say no evidence has been found that their employees participated in a scheme that allowed several hundred people who are not currently eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to improperly register for vaccination appointments.
Lifespan spokesperson Kathleen Hart told The Providence Journal via email that “no Lifespan employees were involved.”
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Robin Neale, vice president of quality, clinical effectiveness and infection prevention for Care New England, said much the same thing.
“Care New England is not aware of any such abuse within our internal vaccination system, or associated with the problem identified by the Department of Health,” Neale said in a statement.
A spokesman for a third organization, CharterCARE, said he “has no reason to believe there are any issues with our vaccination process.”
State Department of Health officials disclosed Tuesday that “hundreds” of people tried to jump the vaccination line.
