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COVID Community Vaccinations Clinics in Southwest Louisiana February 23-26

Louisiana Department of Health

COVID Community Vaccinations Clinics in Southwest Louisiana February 23-26

Published February 22, 2021
 

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
Individuals must be part of Phase 1A or Phase 1B, Tier 1 priority groups to be eligible to receive a vaccine:
Phase 1A
  • Hospital personnel
  • Nursing home and long-term care facility residents and staff
  • Frontline responders to serve as vaccinators (EMS, law enforcement, and fire personnel)
Phase 1B, Tier 1
  • 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

Follow this link for a list of other pharmacies administering the COVID-19 vaccine in Calcasieu Parish and how to schedule an appointment with them.