This week, the Camden County Department of Health and Human Services and healthcare partners will be offering free vaccinations for uninsured children and children with only Medicaid Part A in Pennsauken and Camden. The clinics are part of a first of its kind initiative to prepare children and families of Camden County for the upcoming school year.
“With the back-to-school season just weeks away, it is important that we help families prepare to send their children into the classroom on the first day of school,” said Commissioner Virginia Betteridge, liaison to the Department of Health and Human Services. “Being up to date on these vaccines are crucial and we refuse to let insurance be an obstacle to accessing necessary medical care here in Camden County.”
At the vaccination drives, children can receive various required vaccinations as well as speak with representatives from the Osbourne Family Health Center to assist in insurance applications for families. For children behind on vaccines, the Health Department can make appointments for families to get up to date with all vaccines at one of our health first care and wellness centers.
At these clinics, children can receive the following required vaccinations:
- Ages 4 to 6 DTap, polio, and MMR vaccines,
- Ages 11 and 12 Tdap and meningococcal vaccines
- Age 16 can receive meningococcal vaccines.
Vaccination sites for the week of August 19 are as follows:
- August 21 at Pennsauken Middle School, 8201 Park Avenue, Pennsauken from 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- August 21 at Pennsauken Middle School, 8201 Park Avenue, Pennsauken from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
- August 24 at the Wiggins Center- Health First Care and Wellness Center, 400 Mt. Vernon Street, Camden from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
