List of COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in Union County: Updated List

This article was updated Friday, February 5 at 4:00 pm

UNION COUNTY, NJ – New Jersey has expanded the number of publicly listed COVID-19 vaccination sites, and the state continues to announce new locations in Union County and elsewhere.

Some are accepting commitments directly, but others are not. But the state has suggested contacting these locations and seeing if it is possible to get an appointment (see Union County vaccine location list below).

Health commissioner Judith Persichilli said the state plans to increase the number of vaccination sites to more than 300. State officials said the goal is to vaccinate 70% of the adult population by spring.

Governor Phil Murphy announced that New Jersey has created a county-by-county vaccine center that reports the number of immunizations across the state.

Health officials said that not all sites are publicly listed because some are not open to the public, such as prisons and psychiatric hospitals.

Persichilli said New Jersey does not currently have many vaccines available, but she hopes that will change soon. Biden’s next presidential administration said it plans to greatly expand the number of vaccine doses available to the American public.

New Jersey recently expanded the list of eligible people, allowing police officers and firefighters and people over 65 to receive the vaccine. Read more: NJ expands COVID vaccine to 65 years or older, those with medical problems

Persichilli said the state administered at least 36 percent of the allocated vaccine doses. Hospitals administered vaccines to at least 50% of their health care professionals.

His hope is to continue to expand the number of “mega-sites” in convention centers and large spaces, with the goal of receiving 1,000 vaccinated people a day.

You can find out if you qualify here: When can you get the COVID-19 vaccine in NJ? Here is the new 2021 list

What’s new this week

• On Friday, Summit City announced that it would open a website on Monday that any New Jersey resident in eligibility groups 1A and 1B can use. (More details are here: New Coronavirus Vaccination Center to open at Summit.)
• The state noted: “The vaccination phases are provisional and subject to change. The movement between the vaccination eligibility phases can be fluid. One phase can overlap the other. Not all individuals in each phase will be vaccinated before opening for additional groups, and not all groups within a specific phase will be eligible to receive the vaccine at the same time ”.
• In addition to these sites, there will be more doctors’ offices, hospitals and pharmacies receiving the vaccine, so check your local pharmacy or supermarket. CVS said that some of its stories may receive the vaccine next week (27 CVS pharmacies in NJ to distribute vaccine).
• As of Friday, more than 458,000 Americans have died of the virus. (You can see which states had the highest number of deaths in the past week on this CDC map.)

Here are the public vaccine locations currently listed in Union County. Many will only vaccinate people aged 18 and over for the time being, so check the details.

Elizabeth City Department of Health
418 Palmer St.
Elizabeth NJ, 07202
(908) 820-4250
Pre-register at https://covidvaccine.nj.gov/

Union County Department of Health (Note: this site has been removed from the state list for now)

400 North Avenue East, Westfield
(908) 518-5620
ucnj.org

Neighborhood Health Services – Plainfield
1700 Myrtle Avenue Plainfield
(908) 540-0229
nhscnj.org

Rahway Department of Health
1 City Hall Plaza Rahway
(732) 827-2000
cityofrahway.org

RMG Springfield Urgent Call Center
200 US Highway 22 Springfield
(973) 376-4341
riversidemedgroup.com

RWJ Rahway Clinic
865 Stone Street Rahway
(732) 381-4200
rwjbh.org/covid19vaccine

ShopRite Pharmacy # 163

76 Central Ave.
Clark, NJ 07066
vaccines.shoprite.com

Elizabeth’s Pharmacy ShopRite
865 West Grand St
Elizabeth, NJ 07202
vaccines.shoprite.com

Union County – Kean University
1000 Morris Avenue Union, NJ 07083
ucnj.org/covid19/covid-19-vaccination/

Other information

• Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including the Modern vaccine, are a new type of vaccine that does not include the weakened virus, but teaches human cells to produce a protein that triggers the immune response (read more about that here).
• Governor Phil Murphy said last week that he would like to start vaccinating the general public by Memorial Day.
• Here is a link to see the updated list of eligible people in New Jersey.

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Here are coronavirus resources across the state:

• NJ COVID-19 Information Center: https://covid19.nj.gov/
• General COVID-19 questions: 2-1-1
• NJ COVID-19 Hotline: (800) 222-1222

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