Hillsborough schools expand H1N1 vaccinations

Hillsborough School District to begin vaccinating elementary school kids for H1N1.

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Contact:        Stephen P. Hegarty or Linda Cobbe

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                813-272-4060 or 813-272-4055

After-School Vaccinations Centers Start Monday

Media Access at Jefferson High

Tampa, Fla. - (Oct. 30, 2009) - Teams of Health Department nurses will provide H1N1 vaccine to students at four After-School Vaccination Centers located at high schools around the county starting Monday, November 2.

The four Vaccination Centers are Armwood High,Bowers/Whitley Career Center, Jefferson High and Leto High. They are scheduled to be open from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, November 2, through Thursday, November 5. We will arrange for media access at the Vaccination Center at Jefferson High at approximately 3:30 p.m.

In the coming weeks, several other schools will be opened as After-School Vaccination Centers. (See the list below.) Parents are being encouraged to visit a Vaccination Center that is convenient for them.

The Centers are intended to provide vaccine to elementary school students, charter school students, virtual school students, and students from school district centers.

The vaccination program in the public schools began Tuesday, October 20, at several exceptional student education centers. On October 26, teams of Health Department nurses began providing vaccinations during school time at five high schools and four middle schools throughout the county. Eventually, teams of nurses are scheduled to visit all the public middle schools and high schools.

Elementary schools are being handled differently. Parents must be present when an elementary school age child is vaccinated. The After-School Vaccination Centers are being established to make it possible for parents to take their children to a Center after school hours.

Parents visiting the After-School Vaccination Centers are being encouraged to bring the parental permission form with them. Forms will also be available at the Centers. No child will be vaccinated without a completed consent form signed by a parent or guardian.

In addition to the four After-School Vaccination Centers open next week, in the coming weeks, Centers will be established at the following schools: Blake, Chamberlain, East Bay, Gaither, King, Lennard, Middleton, Plant City, Riverview, Robinson, Sickles, and Tampa Bay Tech, and Wharton high schools, and Sulphur Springs Elementary.  

        The schedule for those Centers has not been set; it is dependent on the availability of the vaccine.

For more information on H1N1, visit www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/flu or the district's new HCPS News Desk http://communication.sdhc.k12.fl.us/news/