EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – After preparing for months, Excelsior Springs Hospital staff began administering 240 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Feb. 5. “We have been planning to receive doses from the state of Missouri for COVID vaccinations for well over a month,” the hospital’s infection prevention specialist, Angela Ochoa, said. “Not knowing when we might get doses, we went ahead and put plans into place and gathered information on what we would need when we did get those doses.” Within 24 hours of receiving notice that doses would be delivered, hospital staff worked to get a vaccination clinic set up at Dr. Andrew Pickett and Dr. Theodore Baldwin’s previous address on West Jesse James Road. The hospital worked with city officials and area emergency responders to immunize fire, police and EMT workers in the community. “This is the first opportunity we have had to be vaccinated,” Excelsior Springs Police Chief C...