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Help Your Child Start the School Year Off Right!

Post by Dr. Mary Jo Stine – Summer is almost over and the children will be back to school soon.  What can you do to get your child’s school year off to a great start? Immunizations are an excellent way to help keep your child healthy.  Children entering kindergarten need to show proof of having received [...]

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Back-to-School Shots — What Indy Parents Should Know!

The new Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) policy that was supposed to go into effect starting July 1st has been postponed until January 2012, but is still causing some confusion and leaving some Marion County families scrambling to get their children’s vaccines before the start of the school year. Earlier this year, the ISDH [...]

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Kids not being able to get the shots needed for school

The article “No low-cost vaccinations for insured children, state says” was featured on IndyStar.com, yesterday.  (Read the entire article here.) The article written reports that a new Indiana State Department of Health policy goes into effect starting July 1st that will no longer allow county health departments to provide low-cost immunizations to children who have [...]

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