Local Medical Center to Vaccinate Children, Teens for Free

School starts soon for hundreds of students throughout the Pomona/Inland Valley and immunizations are required.

Parents seeking to immunize their children can get the shots free during the Pomona Community Health Center’s Kids Health Fair scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10 at Pomona Community Health Center at the Village, 1450 E. Holt Ave.

Children and teens ages two months to 18 are eligible to get the shots. Pomona. Parents and guardians are asked to bring their child's immunization records, organizers said.

“Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has sponsored Kids Health Fair for almost two decades,” said Lynda Flathers, marketing communications outreach coordinator at PVHMC and Kids Health Fair coordinator. “With the Pomona Community Health Center now in its new location at The Village at Indian Hill it was the perfect site for the immunization event.”

Although the Pomona Community Health Center is now a free-standing, nonprofit and Federally Qualified Health Center, it began as an outreach clinic for the uninsured and under-insured through the efforts of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical, officials wrote in a news release. The hospital is still an active partner with the PCHC and underwrites various administrative functions, officials wrote.

PVHMC has sponsored Kids Health Fair at the hospital for the past 18 years, organizers wrote.

“The move to the PCHC will provide easier access for those attending the event and will help familiarize attendees of the event with the services available at the PCHC on a continual basis,” they wrote.

The list of available vaccinations is extensive and include MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), polio, Tdap booster, Pediarix (a combination of Hepatitis B, IPV (Inactive Polio Vaccine and Dtap), HPV (Gardasil), Dtap, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, HIB (Haemophilus B Conjugate Vaccine), IPV, chickenpox (Varicella), meningitis (meningococcal conjugate) and pneumonia (pneumococcal conjugate).

Officials encourage anyone with questions to call (909) 865-9129.