Groups eligible as of April 7:
- Adults age 65 or older (born 1956 or earlier)
Groups that continue to be eligible:
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High-risk congregate living settings refer to residential facilities where a high-risk client population live or stay overnight and use shared spaces (e.g. common sleeping areas, shared bathrooms, shared kitchens, communal dining spaces). The settings are at higher risk of transmission.
Primary essential caregivers are individuals (who enter the congregate living setting) to provide regular and sustained assistance with personal care and/or activities of daily living.
The following groups in this category are able to book appointments at HPPH clinics:
Residents, Primary Essential Caregivers and Staff of High-Risk Congregate Living Settings in the following settings:
- Developmental services/intervenor which includes
- supported independent living (person lives independently and has support worker(s) who come into the home to assist.)
- Mental health and addictions congregate living
- Homes for special care (provincial program providing housing, meals and assistance with daily living for adults with a serious mental illness)
- Children’s residential facilities
- Youth justice facilities
- Supportive housing (a setting where individuals are receiving care)
- Indigenous healing and wellness
- Bail beds and Indigenous bail beds
- Provincial and demonstration schools/Consortium Centre Jules-Leger
The following groups will be contacted directly by HPPH and partners to arrange vaccinations
These groups will also eventually be able to book on our system for an HPPH community clinic:
- Residents, Primary Essential Caregivers and Staff of High-Risk Congregate Living Settings in the following settings:
- Emergency homeless shelters
- Other homeless populations not in shelters
- Employer-provided living accommodations for temporary foreign agricultural workers
- Adult correctional facilities
- Violence Against Women (VAW) shelters
- Anti-Human Trafficking (AHT) residences
- Inpatients on rehabilitation, complex care, geriatrics and mental health units
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Adults 16 years of age and older with the following Highest-Risk health conditions:
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The province as part of its Phase 2 Prioritization has identified different risk groups with health conditions. Below are the groups considered "Highest-Risk" that are currently eligible to book at HPPH clinics:
- Organ transplant recipients
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
- Neurological diseases in which respiratory function may be compromised (e.g., motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis)
- Haematological malignancy diagnosed <1 year
- Kidney disease eGFR <30
- In addition, one (1) primary essential caregiver for an individual with an eligible highest-risk health conditions is now also eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Primary essential caregivers are individuals who provide regular and sustained assistance with personal care and/or activities of daily living.
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- Indigenous persons 16 years of age and older
- Adults 16 years of age and older who are chronic home care recipients.
- Staff and essential caregivers in long-term care homes, retirement homes, and any residents of these settings that have not yet received a first dose of vaccine.
- Alternative level of care patients in hospitals who have a confirmed admission to a long-term care home, retirement home or other congregate care home for seniors.
- Residents and staff in other congregate care settings for seniors, including assisted living facilities.
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Where a health sector has been named in the priority sector, all workers in that sector are included (e.g., including students, registered volunteers, custodial, security and reception staff). This includes non-frontline healthcare workers: those working remotely, in administration, and who do not require PPE to work.
Where a non-health setting has been named, only workers providing a health service or direct patient care are included.
- Hospital and acute care
- Primary care (including walk-in clinics, community health centres, and nurse-practitioner-led clinics
- Healthcare workers in the following outpatient and ambulatory areas:
- Developmental services
- Mental health and addictions services
- Campus health
- Community diagnostic imaging
- Nursing staff in daycares and schools
- Dietary / nutrition
- Independent health facilities (e.g., Opticians/Optometry, Podiatry, Audiology)
- Naturopathy / Holistic care
- Social work
- Sexual health clinics
- Healthcare workers in the following non-acute rehabilitation and therapy areas:
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Public health
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- Medical First Responders:
- ORNGE, paramedics, firefighters, police providing medical first response
- Faith leaders who, as part of their regular role, are at increased risk of exposure to COVID-19 through close contact with persons and families in the following circumstances:
- End of life care
- Care of the deceased, funerals, bathing, or other ceremony with direct contact with deceased persons
- Home visits to unwell persons
- Pastoral care in hospitals/LTCHs/RHs or other vulnerable settings
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Please note: an appointment is required. Appointments are only available to those who are eligible at this time. Please arrive at your scheduled appointment time, not earlier.
- If you are able to book online, or if you are a friend/caregiver and can help someone book online, we are asking that you please book online rather than calling. Our phone lines are very busy.
- Use the booking links on this page, or call 1-833-753-2098. If you are emailing our COVID Intake email to book an appointment, please include your eligibility for a COVID-19 vaccine and a phone number that you can be reached at.
- Huron Perth Public Health is not using the provincial booking system at this time.
- Please note that spouses and caregivers may only book an appointment for their vaccine if they are part of an eligible group listed above.
- Reminder: Once your appointment has been booked you will receive an email confirmation with your scheduled appointment time. If you do not receive the confirmation email shortly after registering, please check your Junk email folder in case the email was delivered there instead of your inbox.
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