Eligibility Criteria for Ordering Vaccine from Toronto Public Health

Health care providers including hospitals can order some provincially funded vaccines for their clients via Toronto Public Health (TPH). Please read the eligibility criteria for each program below before placing an order.

COVID-19 Vaccine Immunization Program

To order COVID-19 vaccines from TPH, health care providers, hospitals, and long-term care/retirement homes/other eligible congregate settings (including complex continuing care, transitional care units, and others) must:

  1. Be located in Toronto (have a postal code beginning with “M”),
  2. Be registered with the Ontario Government Pharmaceutical and Medical Supply Services (OGPMSS) to receive and store publicly funded vaccines, and have a valid OGPMSS client number,
  3. Be compliant with the Ontario Ministry of Health Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidelines and have vaccine storage units that have passed TPH inspection within the last 12 months,
  4. Have COVaxON accounts for all vaccinators and relevant personnel, and ensure these staff have completed COVaxON training,
    1. Note: Our team will assist in ensuring that all required individuals receive COVaxON accounts and training if needed.
      1. Health Care Providers (e.g. physicians and nurse practitioners) and hospitals: please contact COVIDVaccineOrder@toronto.ca.
      2. Long-Term Care/Retirement Homes/other eligible Congregate Settings: please contact LTCRVaccine@toronto.ca.
    2. Provide publicly funded vaccines free of charge to eligible Ontario clients, and in accordance with all applicable laws, Ministry of Health recommendations, and guidelines.

If you fit this criteria, please complete the steps below to enroll in the COVID-19 Vaccine Immunization Program before you will be able to order vaccines.

Step One:

Enroll in the COVID-19 Vaccine Immunization Program

All health care providers and facilities that wish to order COVID-19 vaccines need to first enroll into the COVID-19 Vaccine Immunization Program before proceeding to order online. There are separate enrollment forms for Health Care Providers, Hospitals, and Long-Term Care/Retirement Homes/other eligible Congregate Settings (including Complex Continuing Care, Transitional Care Units and others).

Enrollment for Health Care Providers Enrollment for LTC/RH/Other Eligible Congregrate Settings

Enrollment for Hospitals

Step Two:

TPH will process the enrollment and contact you directly with further information, including online ordering instructions. Please note that hospitals will be required to sign an agreement prior to being approved to receive vaccines.

Step Three:

Once you are enrolled, you will be able to order COVID-19 vaccine from TPH.

Resources:

Community COVID-19 Vaccine Program Email Update Archive

TPH provides COVID-19 vaccine updates to enrolled providers by email. Newly enrolled providers can view the program Welcome Package to get up to date on current COVID-19 vaccine information, or view an archive of email notifications COVID-19 vaccine providers have received, below.

Toronto Public Health provides free hepatitis B, meningococcal, and human papillomavirus vaccinations to students in grades 7 to 12. For eligible students who have not received a full vaccine series of these vaccines, Toronto Public Health will release the vaccines to physicians based on the following criteria:

Hepatitis B Vaccine

  • Grade 7 to 12 students who have not already received or completed their vaccine series
  • Anyone born in 2005*

Human Papillomavirus-9 Vaccine

  • Grade 7 to 12 students who have not already received or completed their vaccine series
  • Anyone born in 2004 and 2005*
  • Females born in 2002 and 2003
  • Males up to 26 years, who identify as having sex with men

*If you are born in the year(s) listed and missed HPV or Hepatitis B vaccine doses due to the pandemic, you have extra time to get vaccinated for free until August 31, 2024.

Please include the student’s first and last name, plus their date of birth. Males born outside of the listed birth years are not eligible for the free HPV-9 vaccine. The HPV vaccine can be purchased privately. Youth, ages 15 years and older need three doses with minimum spacing of zero, two and six months.

Meningococcal-quadrivalent

  • Grade 7 -12 students who did not already received their vaccine

Order Vaccines for the School-Based Immunization Program

Health care providers that fit the eligibility criteria may order vaccines for the school-based immunization program through the Online Vaccine Order Form

Online Vaccine Order Form

Hepatitis A vaccine

  • individuals with chronic liver disease, including hepatitis B and C
  • individuals who use injection drugs
  • men who have sex with men (MSM)

Hepatitis B vaccine

  • infants born to hepatitis B carrier mothers
  • children under seven years of age, whose families have emigrated from countries with a high prevalence of hepatitis B or may be exposed to hep B carriers through their extended families
  • household and sexual contacts of chronic carriers and acute cases
  • individuals with a history of a sexually transmitted infection; multiple sex partners or MSMs
  • individuals with chronic liver disease, including hepatitis C
  • individuals who use injection drugs
  • individuals awaiting liver transplants (Only second and third doses are publicly funded.)
  • individuals with a needle-stick injury, in a non-health care setting
  • individuals on renal dialysis or persons with diseases requiring frequent receipt of blood products, such as haemophilia. (Only second and third doses are publicly funded.)

Meningococcal Conjugated A, C, Y, W-135 vaccine

Individuals, nine months of age and older with:

  • functional or anatomic asplena
  • complement, properdin, factor D deficiency or primary antibody deficiencies
  • pre/post cochlear implant recipients
  • Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) or acquired complement deficiency

Menactra®/Menveo® is licensed up to age 55; its use for ages 56 and older is off label but recommended since the Meningococcal Polysaccharide ACYW-135 (Menomune®) is no longer available.

Multicomponent Meningococcal B (4CMenB) vaccine

Individuals, two months to 17 years with:

  • functional or anatomic asplenia
  • complement, properdin, factor D or primary antibody deficiencies
  • pre/post Cochlear implant recipients
  • HIV or acquired complement deficiencies (e.g., receiving eculizumab)

Human papillomavirus vaccine

  • individuals, up to 26 years of age who self-identify as MSM (gay, bisexual or transgender).

Order Vaccines for High-Risk Clients

Health care providers that fit the eligibility criteria may order vaccines for high-risk clients through the Online Vaccine Order Form.

Online Vaccine Order Form

General Vaccines – Order Via Ontario Government Pharmaceutical and Medical Supply Services (OGPMSS)

For Toronto health care providers, use the Ministry form: Requisition for Biological Supplies to order routine vaccines, immunization cards and other supplies. Then fax directly to OGPMSS.

For questions about your vaccine order, contact:

OGPMSS Customer Service
99 Adesso Drive,1st floor. Concord, ON L4K 3C7
Tel: 416-327-0837
Fax: 416-327-0818

Email: OGPMSS.moh@ontario.ca

For more information, see Publicly Funded Immunization Schedule for Ontario.