Immunizations and Vaccinations

Vaccines are incredibly important because they help protect individuals and communities from serious diseases in the following ways:

• Preventing Diseases: Vaccines train the immune system to recognize and fight specific pathogens (like viruses or bacteria), which helps prevent individuals from getting sick. This reduces the risk of serious illnesses, complications, or even death from diseases like measles, polio, or influenza.

• Herd Immunity: When a large percentage of the population is vaccinated, it reduces the overall spread of disease. This protects people who cannot be vaccinated, such as those with certain health conditions or weakened immune systems, because the disease is less likely to spread.

• Eradication of Diseases: Vaccination campaigns have led to the eradication or near-eradication of some diseases.

• Cost-Effective: Vaccines save lives and reduce healthcare costs by preventing the need for medical treatments for diseases that would otherwise be costly to treat.

• Global Health: Vaccines help prevent the global spread of infectious diseases, which is important in our interconnected world.

Being up to date on immunizations is one way of preventing serious and/or costly illness within your life and the lives of others — including the elderly and children.

Whether you are interested in inquiring about back-to-school or work-related vaccinations, a flu shot, or even being vaccinated before traveling abroad or other special circumstances, we're happy to provide you with those next steps so you can stay healthy.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends "a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important action in reducing your risk of flu and its potentially serious outcomes. Flu vaccines help to reduce the burden of flu illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths on the health care system each year." (source)

Everyone who is able to and is 6 months or older should get a flu vaccine.