Health Ministries Clinic has slots available for the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 12:30-4:45pm. You must be available for your second dose on April 9, 2021

Those currently eligible are:

• 65 or older

• Essential healthcare workers (must provide employee ID and current paystub/proof of employment)

• Firefighters, police officers, first responders, correction officers

• Grocery store workers and food services

• K-12 and childcare workers, including teachers, custodians, drivers and other staff (must provide employee ID and current paystub/proof of employment)

• Food processing, including meat processing plants• Large scale aviation manufacturing plants

• Transportation workers

• Workers in the following industries, if they regularly need to be in high-risk settings to perform their duties:

o Retail, warehouses and sales outletso Agriculture

o Supply of critical services or materials for the COVID response (e.g. PPE)

o The U.S. Postal Serviceo Department of Motor Vehicles

You do not have to be a current HMC patient to participate. To register for Friday, please use this link: https://hipaa.jotform.com/210636114388151If you are unable to register at this time, HMC will update patients and the community as more vaccines become available.

Since the state announced they were moving into Phase 2 of their Covid-19 vaccine distribution plan we have been receiving more questions regarding vaccine availability locally.  I wanted to offer an update and share what we know today.  

To this point Health Ministries Clinic has not received any vaccines for phase 2.   KDHE is currently directing the weekly allotments to the local Health Departments.  Everyone wishes that these weekly allotments were higher as they are quite limited.  Unfortunately, at this point we have very little ability at the local level to influence these allotment numbers being directed by KDHE.  

Harvey County has established a Community Call Center to take appointments and to get your name on a wait list for the vaccines that become available.  At this time vaccines are being prioritized for individuals 65 and older.  This Community Call Center is operating Monday through Friday 8:30 to 4:30 for the immediate future.  The number for the Community Call Center is 316-836-4990.  This call center is currently the only route to getting your name on the waiting list for the vaccine.  

Understandably the call center is experiencing very high volumes.  This is simply the reality given the high demand.  While difficult, I would encourage you to try and remain patient and continue calling the call center number.  For clarity we are not managing a sign up process at Health Ministries Clinic so please don’t call the clinic directly. Again, the only sign up is being managed by the Community Call Center. That number is 316-836-4990.  

As we receive any new information we will work to ensure that this gets communicated to our patients and the community.   Thank you.  

-Matthew Schmidt, CEO