Doddridge County Health Department aligns with West Virginia Division of Immunization Services’ (WVDIS) mission to prevent and control vaccine-preventable diseases among the children, adolescents and adults of West Virginia. A vaccine preventable disease is a disease that a person can be prevented from catching by receiving a vaccine to provide immunity. Vaccines help protect communities and individual from highly contagious and often dangerous communicable diseases.
WVDIS administers the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program that provides free vaccines to eligible children. Eligible children are those without health insurance, those enrolled in Medicaid, American Indian and Alaskan natives, and those with health insurance that does not cover some or all vaccines. This federally funded program is available at more than 400 health care provider locations across the state and our health department, like all health departments is one of those locations. Children with insurance through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are also eligible for free vaccines at all the provider locations participating in the VFC program.
The Health Department also provides a limited amount of vaccines for uninsured adults through WVDIS. Vaccines provided for adults include pneumococcal, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap), influenza and shingles.
Additionally the the Health Department carries the following vaccines on hand: Hepatitis A Hepatitis B, DTap, Varicella, MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) IPV (inactivated polio virus), Tdap, tetanus, MCV4 (meningococcal A, C, W, and Y), influenza, covid, HPV (human papillomavirus, Rotavirus, Hib, Pneumococcal, Shingles.
The Health Department can order the following vaccines upon request: MenB (bacterial meningococcal) Monkeypox, RSV.
Our vaccine clinic is every Monday (excluding Holidays) from 8am to 12pm, however we will take walk-ins if a nurse is present and vaccines are available. Call the Health Department for more information and vaccine availability.
Recommended Vaccine Schedule for Children
CDC’s website to vaccines: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/
Vaccine Information Sheets: https://www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis/about-vis/
