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Beebe Medical Center's Free Flu Vaccine Clinics Receiving Strong Response
10/22/10
More than 200 people received their free flu vaccine at the Beebe Lab Express in Millville on the first day that Beebe Medical Center offered them this season. A few days later, more than 100 people got theirs on a Thursday evening at the Nanticoke Museum, despite the driving rain outside.
I am so happy to see people taking steps to stay healthy this flu season, says Peggy Bixler, RN, MSN, Community Health Nurse Coordinator for Beebe Medical Center.
As part of its mission to encourage healthy living and prevent illness, Beebe Medical Center has been offering free, one-day flu vaccine clinics in October. It will continue to offer them in November at convenient locations around the Medical Center's service area. The vaccines are for adults 18 years of age and older. Parents should contact their children's physician for information about pediatric vaccinations.
Influenza viruses are always changing so annual vaccination is recommended. Each year scientists try to match the viruses in the vaccine to those most likely to cause flu that year. The 2010-2011 vaccine provides protection against A/HINI (pandemic) influenza and two other influenza viruses -- influenza A/H3N2 and influenza B. It will not prevent illnesses caused by other viruses.
The clinics are organized through the Beebe Medical Center Community Health Department. No appointments are necessary. For more information, contact the Community Health Department at (302) 645-3337, or visit the Beebe Medical Center website: www.beebemed.org
Here is a list of the remaining free flu vaccine clinics:
Oct. 27, (Wednesday) noon to 3 p.m. Beebe Lab Express -- Milton
614 Mulberry St. Clipper Square
Oct. 28, (Thursday) 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Camp Rehoboth, Rehoboth Beach
Oct. 30, (Saturday) 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rabbits Ferry Community Center
Robinsonville Rd
Nov. 3, (Wednesday) noon to 3 p.m. Beebe Lab Express Millsboro, 232 Mitchell St
Nov. 6, (Saturday) 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ocean View VFW, Mason Dixon Post 7234,
29265 Marshy Hope Way, Ocean View
Nov. 13, (Saturday) noon to 4 p.m. Beebe Health Campus, John J Williams Hwy
(route 24) Rehoboth Beach.
Caption: Debbie Ostrander, RN, a nurse working with the Beebe Medical Center Community Health Department, vaccinates Kathleen Purnell of Millsboro during the free flu clinic at the Nanticoke Indian Museum in Oak Orchard.
Beebe Medical Center is a not-for-profit community medical center with a charitable mission to encourage healthy living, prevent illness, and restore optimal health with the people residing, working, or visiting in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit us online at www.beebemed.org
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