Exchange Supports Fort Bliss with COVID-19 Vaccination Site
Capt. Cody Fuller, officer in charge of the Freedom Crossing vaccination site, gives a thumbs up at the opening of the site’s building. Fuller is an operating room nurse with William Beaumont Army Medical Center. (Photo by Amabilia Payen, WBAMC Public Affairs Office)
The Exchange’s Freedom Crossing at Fort Bliss worked in lockstep with garrison command to set up a site at the shopping center for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Fort Bliss garrison command approached Exchange General Manager Michael Brennan on April 26, and by April 29, a vacant 7,900-square-foot space in the shopping center was turned into a vaccination site to serve the military community. The vaccine site is open from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday to take advantage of the center’s peak foot traffic.
Soldiers greet people at the door, sign them in and process their paperwork. There are three vaccination tables and a 40-seat room for the 15-minute post-vaccination observation period.
Fort Bliss already has another vaccination site at Stout Gymnasium as well as a mobile vaccination team that goes to individual units and motor pools. The added location will make it easier for more people on post to get the vaccine.
