COVID-19 Vaccinations Update

January 15, 2021

Physicians, office staff, and others who are covered under Phase 1A Tiers 1-3 are all eligible to receive vaccinations. Per the Governor’s announcement yesterday, California is now beginning Phase 1B, which will include all adults over age 65 and essential workers. Phase 1A continues to be the highest priority group.

Health care workers (including physicians and patient-facing staff) may get vaccinated at one of the county vaccination clinics. Each county has a sign-up process. After you have signed up, the County will notify you when available vaccination appointments open up at county vaccination clinics. Appointment availability is announced periodically as new clinics are scheduled, so please utilize an email address that you check regularly. When you receive notice from the county, take immediate action to schedule an appointment before they fill up.

Sutter and Kaiser have also announced that they are able to vaccinate health care workers. You do not need to be a patient or an employee/affiliate to access these services.

Sutter

Health care workers or patients aged 75+ can go to sutterhealth.org/covidvaccine, use My Health Online, or call (844) 987-6115 to schedule an appointment.
Your Sutter provider is not able to schedule vaccination or provide vaccination at this time. Please do not contact your doctor’s office.

Kaiser

Health care workers, long-term care patients and staff, and people who are 65+ who wish to get the COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser should contact the call center to inquire about options.
Call center number is (866) 454-8855. NOTE: Due to high call volumes, wait times may be lengthy.

We will continue to alert members as new vaccination resources come online.

Providers can now enroll in the state’s new CalVax system to receive direct vaccine allocations in order to immunize their patients. Organizations should be prepared to use either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. If you are a provider that previously enrolled and were approved in the COVIDReadi system, you will be migrated to the new CalVax system and do NOT need to re-enroll in CalVax. Read more here.

For Residents to be Notified When Vaccines are Available

Patients can register on their county websites to be notified when it is their turn.

Alameda County Residents: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/44974350ffd14f288b03b029f2486ba8
Contra Costa County Residents: https://bit.ly/38KljjB

Additional Information

Contra Costa County COVID-19 Vaccination Webpage: https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/vaccine
Alameda County COVID-19 Vaccination Info: https://covid-19.acgov.org/vaccines
CMA Vaccination Resource Center: https://www.cmadocs.org/covid-19/vaccine
CMA Vaccination FAQ Document (including info on COVIDreadi): https://www.cmadocs.org/Portals/CMA/files/public/CMA%20COVID-19%20Vaccine%20FAQ.pdf

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact ACCMA at 510-654-5383 or accma@accma.org.