COVID Community Vaccinations Clinics in Southwest Louisiana February 23-26
COVID Community Vaccinations Clinics in Southwest Louisiana February 23-26
From the Louisiana Department of Health – The Louisiana Department will be holding community COVID vaccination clinics in southwestern Louisiana during the week of February 22-27, 2021.
Events will be held on the following dates at the following locations. All of the events are from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Date
|
Facility
|
Address
|
City
|
Registration Phone Number
|
February 23
|
Beauregard Parish Health Unit
|
216 Evangeline St.
|
DeRidder
|
337-463-4486
|
February 23
|
Calcasieu Parish Health Unit
|
3236 Kirkman St.
|
Lake Charles
|
337-478-6020
|
February 24
|
Calcasieu Parish Health Unit
|
3236 Kirkman St.
|
Lake Charles
|
337-478-6020
|
February 25
|
Beauregard Parish Health Unit
|
216 Evangeline St.
|
DeRidder
|
337-463-4486
|
February 25
|
Calcasieu Parish Health Unit
|
3236 Kirkman St.
|
Lake Charles
|
337-478-6020
|
February 26
|
Calcasieu Parish Health Unit
|
201 Edgar St.
|
Sulphur
|
337-478-6020
|
February 26
|
Jefferson Davis Parish Health Unit
|
403 Baker St.
|
Jennings
|
337-824-9123
|
- Hospital personnel
- Nursing home and long-term care facility residents and staff
- Frontline responders to serve as vaccinators (EMS, law enforcement, and fire personnel)
- Persons 65 and older
- Dialysis providers and patients
- Ambulatory and outpatient providers and staff
- Behavioral health providers and staff
- Urgent care clinic providers and staff
- Community care providers and staff
- Dental providers and staff
- Non-emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) providers and staff
- Professional home care providers (including hospice workers) and home care recipients (including older and younger people with disabilities over the age of 16 who receive community or home-based care, as well as clients of home health agencies)
- Interpreters and Support Service Providers (SSPs) working in community and clinic-based settings, and clients who are both deaf and blind
- Health-related support personnel (lab staff, mortuary staff who have contact with corpses, pharmacy staff)
- Schools of allied health students, residents, and staff
- State and local essential COVID emergency response personnel
- Some elections staff of March and April elections
- Teachers and any other support staff working on-site in K-12 or daycare
- All pregnant persons
- Individuals ages 55-64 with at least one of the conditions listed by the CDC as placing them at an “increased risk of severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19.” Persons with the following qualifying underlying medical conditions are advised to complete the Louisiana COVID-19 Vaccine Attestation Form to receive the vaccine (providers should have available if individuals are not able to print and complete in advance):
- Cancer
- Chronic kidney disease
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Down syndrome
- Heart conditions including but not limited to heart failure, coronary artery disease or cardiomyopathies
- Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant
- Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30kg/m2 or higher but less than 40kg/m2)
- Severe obesity (BMI greater than 40kg/m2)
- Sickle cell disease
- Smoking
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus
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