Memorial won’t, but Penrose will, offer flu shots

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Memorial Health System will not offer flu or H1N1 vaccinations this year.

“We think there are so many other places to get flu shots – even at Walgreens,” said spokesman Chris Valentine. “We decided last year that resources were not being adequately used in a flu shot clinic – and that they could be better used elsewhere.”

Valentine said the decision wasn’t financial, but was based “more on staffing issues.”

Penrose-St. Francis will offer a series of public flu shot clinics beginning in October and will announce plans for H1N1 immunizations later.

Clinics will be held at Penrose Community Urgent Care, 3205 N. Academy Blvd.; Penrose Hospital, 2222 N. Nevada Ave.; and St. Francis Medical Center, 6001 E. Woodmen Road.

For more information call Centura Health Ask-A-Nurse at 776-5555.