Austin Regional Clinic’s Population Health team volunteered at the Central Texas Food Bank, sorting, packing and moving food to help nourish hungry people and lead the community in the fight against hunger.

We have received your calls, emails, and MyChart messages. First and foremost, we want to thank you for your understanding. We are trying our best to keep everyone updated about a rapidly changing local and nationwide vaccine distribution plan.

The most important message in today’s update is to encourage all of you to use any option to obtain your first dose of vaccine from any approved entity offering it.

Thank you for your patience as we wait for additional vaccine supplies. In the forty years that we have cared for the community, ARC has never experienced a vaccination effort of this magnitude and urgency. We understand and share our patients’ and the community’s wishes to distribute available vaccine quickly and effectively.

109 ARC physicians representing 16 specialties are on Austin Monthly’s annual list of Austin’s Top Doctors 2021, featured in the January, 2021, issue of the magazine.

Drew D. Benac, MD has joined Shao-Chun Rose Chang-Jackson, MD in offering Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) services at ARC Center Street.

Shao-Chun Rose Chang-Jackson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, has begun seeing patients at ARC Center Street, ARC’s newest location In Kyle.  Dr. Chang-Jackson provides the full range of Ob and Gyn services, including comprehensive obstetric care, fertility care, laparoscopy, menopause treatment, STD screen and treatment, telemedicine visits, and more.

Austin Regional Clinic, to date, has vaccinated more than 6,000 healthcare workers and first responders and those most at risk in Group 1B. We have administered about 700-1000 vaccines per day since receiving our first allotment of 7,000 doses on December 23, 2020. ARC has enough vaccine to fulfill its appointments this week and then will have exhausted its initial supply.

Austin Regional Clinic is pleased to announce that Drew D. Benac, MD, Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn), has joined the team at ARC Center Street.  

ARC staff is fielding your questions and aims to make it easy to find out when you can get your vaccine. With a current limited supply of 7,000 doses and over 50,000 ARC patients in Group 1A and 1B, it will take time to vaccinate everyone who is currently prioritized. Here is how we are doing it. Read more.

December 30, 2020 — Austin Regional Clinic began vaccinating community first responders yesterday afternoon. Fire trucks from Austin Fire Department lined up at ARC headquarters full of firefighters ready to be vaccinated. ARC expects to vaccinate other regional fire departments and area police departments as well as other first responder groups over the next several weeks. They are also continuing to vaccinate and book appointments with healthcare workers. 

ARC has received its first shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Based on CDC, state and local health department instructions, we have begun to vaccinate doctors and staff. We are inviting community healthcare workers, first responders, long-term-care staff and school nurses to request a vaccination at ARCshotrequest.com.