Flu Shots

So far, I am excited to say that we have almost everything ready for the P.O.D. for flu shots next week. Today I went to Shaker Square to drop off flyers at different stores, and so far I have reached 30 stores all over Shaker (including day care centers, super markets, hardware stores and dry cleaners).

Next week we are preparing for the Employee Health Fair, Senior Health fair and then the P.O.D. all thursday, friday and saturday in order. A bit overwhelming but exciting as well.

So far this week I have also gone to Laurel School (private school in shaker) with a nurse and helped with flu shots, and tomorrow we are going to both Hathway Brown and University Schools to vaccinate the faculty.

Flu shot clinics: we also have been giving flu shots at the Health department itself on tuesdays starting this tuesday for the next 4 weeks, and already we have vaccinated 90 faculty members of Laurel, 48 Senior citizens at tuesdays flu shot clinic and about 90% of both the fire fighters, police department officers, and almost all of the city employees.

This alone goes to show, for me, that although my goal is to increase those who got flu shots at the P.O.D. from 365 to 450 residents, i think that we have done more than that. I think that from all these experiences i have learned that even though not many people come to the P.O.D. we are still vaccinating Shaker, and if i count how many people we vaccinated total so far, there would be more than 450 residents this year alone from the schools, police department, city employees, and fire department, however it doesnt mean we should stop trying to get more people at the P.O.D.

So far the GIS map Kayleigh (the intern at the Health department) and I have, we can see that last year, we vaccinated people from all over cuyahoga county, and the map is amazing with what it shows. I was surprised to see people vaccinated from all over, so it will be interesting comparing this year and last years map and seeing if those we vaccinated have increased in number and in the places from which they come.