Prairie Ridge Health has vaccination appointments available for eligible individuals. To receive your vaccine, call 920-623-1415

In addition to healthcare personnel, residents in long-term care facilities, police and fire, correctional staff, adults age 65 and older, educators and child care, individuals in Medicaid long-term care programs, and congregate living facility personnel, the following groups are eligible:

Utility and communications infrastructure

• Workers who cannot socially distance and are responsible for the fundamental processes and facilities that ensure electric, natural gas, steam, water, wastewater, internet, and telecommunications services are built, maintained, generated, distributed, and delivered to customers.

 Public transit

• Drivers who have frequent close contact with members of the public, limited to:
• public and commercial intercity bus transportation services
• municipal public transit services
• those employed by specialized transit services for seniors, disabled persons, and low-income persons

 Food supply chain

• Agricultural production workers, such as farm owners and other farm employees.
• Critical workers who provide on-site support to multiple agricultural operations, such as livestock breeding and insemination providers, farm labor contractors, crop support providers, and livestock veterinarians.
• Food production workers, such as dairy plant employees, fruit and vegetable processing plant employees, and animal slaughtering and processing employees.
• Retail food workers, such as employees at grocery stores, convenience stores, and gas stations that also sell groceries.
• Hunger relief personnel, including people involved in charitable food distribution, community food and housing providers, social services employees who are involved in food distribution, and emergency relief workers.
• Restaurant workers.

Individuals age 16 and older with certain medical conditions that have a greater risk of severe infection from COVID-19 are eligible. Eligibility includes individuals with the following conditions:

• Asthma (moderate-to-severe)
• Cancer
• Cerebrovascular disease (affects blood vessels and blood supply to the brain)
• Chronic kidney disease
• COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Cystic fibrosis
• Diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2
• Down syndrome
• Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
• Hypertension or high blood pressure
• Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant, blood or bone marrow transplant, immune deficiencies, HIV, use of corticosteroids, or use of other immune weakening medicines
• Liver disease
• Neurologic conditions, such as intellectual disabilities and dementia
• Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30-39 kg/m2)
• Overweight (BMI of 25-29 kg/m2)
• Pregnancy
• Pulmonary fibrosis (having damaged or scarred lung tissues)
• Severe Obesity (BMI 40 kg/m2 or more)
• Sickle cell disease
• Thalassemia (a type of blood disorder)