Noyes Health / COVID Vaccines
Vaccine Distribution Information
New York State has expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to people 16 years of age and older. People 16 and 17 years of age should obtain the vaccine made by Pfizer. Noyes Health encourages all eligible patients to schedule a vaccination appointment as soon as possible.
Information regarding Regional Vaccine Distribution Efforts
Eligible New Yorkers in Phase 1B are:
- High-risk hospital workers (emergency room workers, ICU staff and Pulmonary Department staff)
- Residents and staff at nursing homes and other congregate care facilities
- Federally Qualified Health Center employees
- EMS workers
- Coroners, medical examiners and certain funeral workers
- Staff and residents at OPWDD, OMH and OASAS facilities
- Urgent Care providers
- Individuals administering COVID-19 vaccines, including local health department staff
Beginning January 11, Phase 1B eligibility is in effect:
- Individuals Age 65 and older
- First Responders and Support Staff for First Responder Agencies
- Corrections
- P-12 Schools faculty, staff, transportation
- Licensed, registered, approved or legally exempt group Childcare Providers
- Public Transit
- Individuals living in a homeless shelter where sleeping, bathing or eating accommodations must be shared with individuals and families who are not part of your household
- Individual working (paid or unpaid) in a homeless shelter where sleeping, bathing or eating accommodations must be shared by individuals and families who are not part of the same household, in a position where there is potential for interaction with shelter residents
- Public-facing grocery store workers
- In-person college instructors
Beginning January 4, 2021, eligibility is expanded to include:
- All Outpatient/Ambulatory front-line, high-risk health care workers of any age who provide direct in-person patient care
- All staff who are in direct contact with patients (i.e., intake staff)
- All front-line, high-risk public health workers who have direct contact with patients, including those conducting COVID-19 tests, handling COVID-19 specimens and COVID-19 vaccinations
- This includes, but is not limited to,
- Doctors who work in private medical practices and their staff
- Doctors who work in hospital-affiliated medical practices and their staff
- Doctors who work in public health clinics and their staff
- Registered Nurses
- Specialty medical practices of all types
- Dentists and Orthodontists and their staff
- Psychiatrists and Psychologists and their staff
- Physical Therapists and their staff
- Optometrists and their staff
- Pharmacists and Pharmacy Aides
- Home care workers
- Hospice workers
- Staff of nursing homes/skilled nursing facilities who did not receive COVID vaccination through the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program.