WHO:              Dr. Noubar Afeyan, Co-Founder & Chairman, Moderna

                       and CEO, Flagship Pioneering

WHAT:             To visit JTCHS and witness the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine being 

 administered

WHEN:             Friday, April 30, 2020

                        *2:45 PM

WHERE:           Jessie Trice Community Health System – Main Center

5361 NW 22nd Avenue

Miami, FL 33142

DETAILS:         For more information, contact Toni Thompson of Jessie Trice 

Community Health System at (305) 637-6400, or Bernadette Morris of Sonshine Communications at (305) 450-0942 (mobile)

The Jessie Trice Community Health System, Inc is one of Miami-Dade County’s preeminent federally qualified community healthcare centers, governed by a remarkably dedicated Board of Directors (51% of which are users of the medical and dental services) and a diverse, incredibly talented, committed family of providers and staff. The 1st Federally Qualified Health Center in the state and 5th in the nation, Jessie Trice Community Health System, Inc. is a Florida 501 (c) 3, not-for-profit organization that has been serving Miami-Dade County since 1967. JTCHS served its first patients from a trailer. Now, more than fifty (50) years after its founding, JTCHS owns and operates eleven (11) Comprehensive Primary Care centers, a 40 bed Women’s Residential Center for substance use, and are located in two (2) universities and forty (40) school-based health suites.

*Media are encouraged to arrive and set up by 2:30 p.m.  Face masks are required to be worn, and social distancing will be in place for media and all attendees.

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