According to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), COVID-19 vaccine providers should employ all possible tactics to use as many doses as possible. As a reminder, below are strategies to help increase vaccination opportunities:
- As COVID-19 case rates climb and the highly contagious Delta variant becomes an increased threat, vaccination is the best prevention strategy. Providers should continue public outreach efforts to convey the importance of vaccination to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.
- Identify partnership opportunities with employers, libraries, and community and faith-based organizations for special vaccination clinics at those locations.
- Identify mobile vaccination opportunities through partnerships at community events, including festivals, fairs, food truck events, and farmers markets, for example, or at popular entertainment destinations such as zoos or ballparks. ODH offers mobile vaccination units to support these efforts. Request a unit through the COVID-19 Vaccine Providers website.
- Partner with local aging agencies, home-delivered meal providers, developmental disabilities boards, or Medicaid waiver programs to identify and offer vaccinations for homebound individuals and their caregivers and families.
- Continuation of the first-in-the nation nursing home and assisted living maintenance program to vaccinate new residents and staff, or existing residents and staff who have recently chosen to be vaccinated, on a regular cadence.
- Offer vaccination opportunities for shelters or local jails and other correctional/detention facilities.
- Hospital providers can offer the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine as an option to patients upon inpatient or emergency room discharge.
If you have any additional questions, please call the ODH Provider Call Center between 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, at 1.844.9ODHVAX (1.844.963.4829) or email COVIDVACCINE@odh.ohio.gov