COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Patients crammed together without any social distance, unmarked syringes, “chaotic” directions and medical cards that may have been falsified – these are some of the issues noted by a public health worker from El Paso County that Dr. Moma visits health and wellness clinic in Colorado Springs.
A new report obtained by 13 Investigations an exposition of the problems that patients previously had with dr. Moma reported. The clinic made headlines after the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment announced that more than 7,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been developed by Dr. Moma had to be thrown away due to improper procedures.
EPC Public Health had earlier told KRDO that they had sent an employee to investigate the facility after receiving numerous complaints from patients. 13 Investigations filed a Colorado Open Records Act request for information on what health officials found when they visited the clinic and received the inspector’s notes Friday. Some callers asked if dr. Moma is a valid vaccine provider. The clinic is run by a nurse, not a medical doctor.
According to the EPC Public Health employee, they visited the clinic with another employee last week after finding that 1,472 separate appointments were scheduled for one day. The clinic is on the ground floor of the Satellite Hotel, near Academy Boulevard, and employees noted that Sylvienash Moma, the owner of the clinic, was “very cordial and willing to show us her clinic.”
When they were inside, the employees saw a long corridor with several procedure rooms. Inside one of the rooms, employees reportedly “noticed a desk with several silver trays” loaded with filled syringes in a stack and a bowl of vaccine in it. They said none of the people in the room were wearing masks. and that there were no labels on the syringes.The employee also did not see any temperature files or vaccination coolers / refrigerators.
Public health workers saw three rooms with patients receiving vaccinations, but the scene was described as ‘very confusing and chaotic’, with people going in both directions in the corridor connecting the rooms.
According to the health professional’s notes, patients sat right next to each other to get a vaccine, and some “4 x 6 rooms have up to eight people.”
There was a separate waiting area for patients to sit on if they needed an observation time of 30 minutes, but the public health employee said: “there were no medical staff in that area and no one was watching, so people leave whenever they want. “
For those who did not need an observation time of 30 minutes, the surveillance according to the notes was even worse.
Patients were told to sit in their cars in the parking lot for 15 minutes, but the public health worker asked Moma who was observing it. According to the notes, Moma said there was a ‘nurse with an epi-pen driving around’. However, the health worker noticed that they did not see anyone driving around, and Moma could not get in touch with the nurse when asked if they could talk to them.
“We saw most patients drive away immediately,” the health worker noted.
When the employees returned to Public Health, the inspector saw a difference in dosages and then looked at several patient records showing that only one vaccine was listed: Moma.
“It appears that the mapping took place at the registration area before the vaccine was given,” the notes read. “No other vaccines are listed in Prepmod for this clinic. They appear to be counterfeit cards.”
Moma told KRDO she would speak to the press during a conference on Monday, adding that she would answer any questions. We will continue to investigate this story and provide the latest information on Monday.
The state has asked people who have been vaccinated at the clinic to be vaccinated again.