With the flow of COVID-19 vaccine ramping up, St. Tammany Health System has scheduled one-day pop-up vaccine clinics for its primary care clinics in Madisonville and Mandeville.
The Mandeville pop-up, to be held at the St. Tammany Physicians Network office at 201 St. Ann Drive, will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 6.
The Madisonville pop-up will be held at the St. Tammany Physicians Network office at 1520 Highway 22 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 10.
In both cases, two-dose vaccines will be given, with the first dose administered on the above dates and the second dose scheduled for three weeks later.
Both doses must be scheduled before the first dose will be administered.
The pop-up vaccine clinics serve as complements to the vaccine clinics operating every weekday at the health system’s Express Care clinic on Highway 21 and St. Tammany Parish Hospital, both in Covington.
STHS patients wishing to schedule a vaccine through St. Tammany Health System should use the MyChart app to self-schedule. Those having trouble with the app can call the STHS scheduling line at 985-898-4001 (press 1), although heavy anticipated call volumes could result in an extended wait.
As of Feb. 22, 2021, and in accordance with Louisiana Department of Health guidelines, St. Tammany Health System is currently accepting COVID-19 vaccine appointments from the following groups:
- Persons 65 and older
- Dialysis providers and patients
- Ambulatory and outpatient providers and staff, including:
- 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)
- American Sign Language (ASL) and foreign language 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
- Law enforcement and other first responders
- Louisiana Unified Command Group
- State and local essential COVID emergency response personnel
- Some elections staff ahead 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, before their appointment, to receive the vaccine:
- 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