Covid Info

COVID INFORMATION CENTER

Welcome to Desert Sage Health Center’s COVID-19 vaccine information page. Here you will find information on community vaccinations, answers to frequently asked question and helpful resources.

CALLING ABOUT VACCINATIONS

Please call Desert Sage Health Centers COVID Vaccine Hotline at 208-696-7222 for Up-To-Date information on current vaccine news and schedules. Please do not call the clinic’s main number for this information, the lines need to remain free for patients needing appointments for services other than the COVID Vaccine.  Desert Sage is now providing vaccines to teachers, first responders, and ages 65 and over who fall in the current vaccine guidelines specified by Central District Health. This includes established and non-established patients.

VACCINATIONS OPEN FOR:

Adults 65 years of age and older

• There are over 250,000 Idahoans in this age category
• Based on the supply of vaccine we are receiving, it should take approximately 10 weeks to vaccinate Idahoans 65 and older

VACCINATIONS CONTINUING FOR:

• Adult and child protective services
• Blood center workers
• Child welfare workers
• Clergy who enter healthcare facilities to provide religious support to patients
• Community food, housing, and relief services
• Coroners, medical examiners, mortuary and funeral services personnel
• Correctional and detention facility staff (other than medical)
• Dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants
• Emergency medical services
• First responders (firefighters/police) and safety (protective services/community support)
• Home care providers for older adults and people with high-risk medical conditions (includes staff of certified family homes)
• Hospital staff essential for care of COVID-19 patients and maintaining hospital capacity (includes support staff, clinical staff, and medical imaging professionals)
• Idaho Fish and Game and USDA law enforcement officers
• Idaho National Guard medical staff
• Long-term care facility residents and staff (includes staff of adult day care facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities)
• Optometrists
• Outpatient clinic staff essential for care of COVID-19 patients and maintaining hospital capacity (includes vaccine administrators and behavioral health workers, including counselors for substance abuse treatment centers and suicide prevention hotline workers)
• Outpatient and inpatient medical staff (not included above) who are unable to telework
• Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacy aids
• Pre-K–12 school staff and teachers and daycare (childcare) workers
• Psychiatric residential treatment facility staff
• Public health and emergency management response workers who are unable to telework (includes Idaho National Guard deployed to support public health response, state and local public health COVID-19 responders who are unable to telework)
• Radiation therapists
• Residential schools/facilities providing behavioral health treatment
• School nurses

Idahoans up next to get a vaccination

Dates subject to change upon vaccine supply.

EARLY APRIL

• Food and agriculture workers (including food processing workers)
• USDA processing plant inspectors
• Grocery, convenience store, and food pantry workers
• Idaho National Guard if not included earlier
• Manufacturing, public transit, and U.S. Postal Service workers

LATE APRIL

• Other essential workers
• Individuals 16–64 years of age with high-risk medical conditions

MAY

• General public/individuals 16–64 years of age