Official Louisiana State Websites use .la.gov 
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards tomorrow. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts this evening, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
February 03, 2021 Health Department to hold COVID community vaccination clinic in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, -
The Office of Public Health Region 2 will hold a community COVID vaccination clinic on Thursday, February 4 at the Southern University F.G. Clark Activity Center, 801 Harding Blvd., Baton Rouge 70807. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and appointments are required to receive a vaccination.
Vaccine recipients must be part of Phase 1A or Phase 1B, Tier 1 priority groups eligible to receive a vaccine:
Phase 1A: Estimated population size: 249,000
Vaccine recipients must be part of Phase 1A or Phase 1B, Tier 1 priority groups eligible to receive a vaccine:
Phase 1A: Estimated population size: 249,000
- Hospital personnel
- Nursing home and long-term care facility residents and staff
- Frontline responders to serve as vaccinators (EMS, law enforcement and fire personnel)
Phase 1B, Tier 1: Estimated population size: 640,000
- Persons ages 70 years or older
- Health-related support personnel (labs, mortuary, pharmacy)
- Outpatient clinic providers and clinic staff
- Urgent care clinic providers and staff
- Community care clinic providers and staff
- Behavioral health clinic providers and staff
- Dialysis patients and providers
- Home care providers (including hospice workers) and home care recipients (including older and younger people with disabilities over the age of 16 who receive community or home-based care, as well as clients of home health agencies)
- Dental providers and staff
- American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters and Support Service Providers (SSPs) working in community and clinic-based settings, and clients who are both deaf and blind
- Students, residents, faculty and staff of allied health schools (if not already receiving vaccine or in a plan to receive from their respective schools)
Vaccine supply is extremely limited (375 doses). Make an appointment here: https://ldh.la.gov/region2vaccine.