Emanuel Medical Center encourages all qualified individuals to schedule appointments for the hospital’s COVID vaccine clinic on Wednesdays. If you meet these requirements, call to schedule your appointment, 478-289-1100.
Newly Eligible Individuals for COVID-19 Vaccine Effective March 8, 2021
1. Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers
Intellectual Disability is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills. This disability originates before the age of 22.
A developmental disability is a physical or mental impairment that happens before the age of 22, is expected to last a lifetime, and impacts at least three activities of daily living. Activities of daily living include self-care; receptive and expressive language; learning; mobility; self-direction; capacity for independent living; and economic self-sufficiency.
2. Parents of Children with Complex Medical Conditions or who are at high risk for COVID complications:
• Malignancies requiring active treatment
• Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) including organ transplant (bone marrow or solid organ) within 2 years
• Critical congenital heart disease
• Asthma (moderate to severe)
• Sickle cell disease
• Diabetes
• Obesity (BMI >95th index-for-age percentile)
• Cystic fibrosis
• Significant neurologic injury or condition (hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, traumatic brain injury, congenital anomaly) with functional/developmental impairment (e.g. cerebral palsy, developmental delay or disability, prematurity, mitochondrial disease)
• Technology dependence (e.g. BiPAP, trach)
3. Pre-K, K-12, and DECAL Licensed or Exempt Childcare Programs Educators and Staff
