We appreciate your concerns about getting vaccinated for Swine Flu and have adopted a staged process for the provision of H1N1 vaccine to priority groups per the Center For Disease Control guidelines.
The H1N1 vaccine is manufactured in two forms:
- Nasal mist live-vaccine
- Injectable killed-vaccine
12-2-09 H1N1 Update
We are providing vaccine to patients in the priority groups listed below. We do not have the vaccine available for non-CMP patients at this time.
- Siblings of children 6 months and younger living in the same household
- Siblings age 4 to 24 with a high-risk condition will receive the injectable vaccine
- Siblings age 2 to 24 without a high-risk condition will recieve the nasal mist
- High-risk* patients between ages 2 and 24 for the injectable vaccine
- Pregnant women - CMP patients only
- Parents of children under 6 months
- 5-24 years old at low-risk
- 24-50 years old at high-risk
- Other children 4 and under
- 50-65 years old at high-risk
- 50-65 years old at low-risk
- 65 and over at high-risk
- 65 and over at low-risk
Appointments can be made for patients in these groups by calling your primary provider's office.
*High-risk is defined as patients with the following conditions:
- asthma
- cancer currently under treatment with chemo or radiation therapy
- chronic kidney
- chronic liver disease
- chronic lung disease
- diabetes
- heart disease
- immunosuppression
- severe mental retardation/cerebral palsy
- sickle-cell disease but not merely trait