Home Health Care News March 25, 2019
Bailey Bryant

In addition to packages, the United Parcel Service (UPS) will soon deliver home-based health care.

The world’s largest package delivery firm plans to test a dispatch service in which it will send home health nurses to provide in-home vaccines to U.S.-based adults, UPS representatives confirmed in an email to Home Health Care News.

While UPS declined to provide further comment, the details of the pilot were first reported in Reuters last week.

As part of the test, vaccines will be shipped from UPS’s Louisville, Kentucky, headquarters to one of the company’s U.S. franchises, of which there are more than 4,7000, according to the Reuters. A home health nurse contracted by UPS’s clinical trial logistics...

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