BURBANK : Free Immunizations Offered Students
A new free immunization clinic for Burbank public school students will open at Thompson Memorial Medical Center next week.
The clinic is being funded by a $125,000 grant from the Burbank Community Hospital Foundation, the original operators of the hospital, which is giving the money through the Burbank Education Foundation to immunize Burbank students and their younger siblings.
“We’ll be a lot more accessible than the county clinics,” said Dr. T. K. Desai, the volunteer director of the clinic and the hospital’s director of emergency services. The clinic will be open from noon to 8 p.m. and no appointment is needed.
Two nurse practitioners will be the only paid staff members when the clinic opens. Community volunteers are needed to organize focus and youth groups in coordination with education programs to be run out of the clinic.
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services has signed the clinic as an outside provider for inoculations.
The clinic at Thompson Memorial will offer the full range of shots required by law, including polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. Testing will also be offered for tuberculosis.
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