Publicly Funded Vaccine Ordering

COVID-19

• COVID-19 Immunization Clinic Vaccine Request Form (last updated - October 2024)
• COVID-19 Immunization Post-Clinic Collection Form (last updated - October 2024)

Influenza

• Influenza Vaccine Requisitions Form (last updated - October 2024)
• Non-reusable Influenza Vaccine Return Form (last updated - Sept. 2023)

Routine Immunizations

• Routine Vaccine and Supply Requisitions Form (no influenza) (last updated - March 2025)

Exemption from Immunization

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Additional Resources

• High Risk Vaccine Requisition Form (last updated - March 2025)
• Fillable Vaccine Temperature Log Book
• Non-Reusable Vaccine Return Form (Spoiled or Expired Vaccine)
• Adverse Storage Condition Worksheet
• Report of Adverse Event following Immunization (AEFI)

Sexual Health

• Syphilis Clinical History and Staging Form
• STI Treatment Reference Guide
• Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections: Guide for professionals
• Syphilis Guide: Key information and resources
• Syphilis – Serology
• Interim guidance for the treatment of uncomplicated gonococcal infections

To report suspected or confirmed diseases of public health significance, health providers may contact Algoma Public Health 24/7.

• List of Diseases of Public Health Significance

As a health provider, you can make a difference in helping your clients quit smoking and vaping. Even a brief conversation can lead to quitting; it can be as simple as asking about nicotine use, recommending quitting, and referring to community resources or self-help materials.

The step by step 3 A's method for brief interventions has substantial research supporting its use in helping nicotine users. 

• ASK about tobacco use at every contact.
• ADVISE that quitting is the best thing they can do for their health.
• ACT by providing support or referring to other services

Community Supports

• STOP on the Net
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - TEACH Project
• Ottawa Model (for smoking cessation)
• Lower-Risk Nicotine Use guideline
• Don’t Quit Quitting
  
• You Can Make it Happen
• Smokers' Helpline
• Ontario Pharmacist Association

For more information regarding smoking or vaping cessation support, see the Quit Smoking or Vaping section on our website.

April 24, 2025: Measles case confirmed in the Algoma district 
April 9, 2025: COVID-19 & RSV Prophylaxis Program Update
March 7, 2025: Measles update and new after-hours phone number
January 24, 2025: ISPA & Prevention and Management of Avian Influenza
January 10, 2025: Candida auris: Now reportable to Public Health

• December 13, 2024: Rabies Awareness 
• November 1, 2024: HIV Education Series for Primary Care Clinicians: Enhance your HIV knowledge and skills
• October 7, 2024: COVID-19, Influenza and RSV Immunization
• September 24, 20214: Algoma's Community Health Profile
• September 6, 2024: RSV Vaccine Program for Infants, High-Risk Children, and Older Adults
• August 29, 2024: Market withdrawal of all Covid-19 XBB vaccine products
• August 16, 2024: West Nile Virus (WNV) Detected in Sault Ste. Marie
• July 29, 2024: Bordetella Pertussis Cases Detected in Algoma
• July 19, 2024: New Vaccine Products for Publicly Funded Pneumococcal Vaccine Program
• July 5, 2024: Protecting Our Community from the Risks of Hot Summer Weather on Patients' Health
• June 11, 2024: PHO Rounds: Let's Talk About Syphilis: A Case-Based Clinical Overview
• April 5, 2024: Public Health updates: RSV, COVID-19 recommendations, IPAC resources, Mpox
• March 7, 2024: Measles update
• March 1, 2024: Anticipated Increased Demand For Vaccination Appointments
• February 21, 2024: Measles Preparedness - Memo from the Chief Medical Officer of Health
• February 20, 2024: Congenital Syphilis Can Be Prevented With Appropriate Screening
• February 12, 2024: NEW Syphilis Resource / When to Consider Empiric Treatment
• February 9, 2024: Drug Toxicity - Memo From The Chief Medical Officer Of Health
• February 5, 2024: Syphilis Infection Rapidly Rising in Algoma: Health Care Provider Action Needed
• January 8, 2024: Updates from Public Health - Measles and Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA)
   

• December 18, 2023 - Botulism Guide, iGAS, Mpox, Smoking Cessation, Pregnancy and COVID-19 report from BORN, Ontario Public Health Standards

• November 2, 2023 - Respiratory Season Updates

• October 13, 2023 - Bordetella Pertussis Case Detected in Algoma
• September 29, 2023 - Update to COVID-19 guidance and Influenza Immunization, 2023/2024
• July 28, 2023 - Blastomycosis in Algoma & new reportable diseases (Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Powassan)
• July 19, 2023 - Update to spring COVID-19 booster recommendations
• July 5, 2023 - Immunization School Pupils Act (ISPA)
• May 25 - Increased Invasive Group A Streptococcal disease (iGAS) in Ontario
• April 26 - HIV & Gonorrhea testing
• March 22 - Increased detection of a veterinary tranquilizer and benzodiazepines in unregulated drug supply
• March 13 - Mpox in 2023: Information for clinicians 
• March 9 - Changes to Lyme disease testing
• February 28 - Measles preparedness 
• February 15 - Increase in Giardiasis

• December 22, 2022 - Reminder - Reporting deaths where a disease of public health significance is cause of death
• November 3, 2022 - Monkeypox situation update and vaccine availability
• September 29, 2022 - Rowan’s Law (Concussion Safety), 2018
• September 26, 2022 - Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) testing in Cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis
• September 15, 2022 - 2022/2023 Universal Influenza Immunization 
• September 6, 2022 - Aconitine Poisoning cases in Ontario
• August 3, 2022 - Monkeypox
• June 28, 2022 - Bordetella Pertussis case detected in Algoma
• March 21, 2022 - Increase in Syphilis cases in the Algoma district
• January 26, 2022 - COVID-19 update

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