Flu clinics this week

ozarkSeveral Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus students are helping this week with mass flu clinics in Franklin, Johnson and Sebastian counties.

 

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Priscilla Banuelos of Ozark, middle, a health service specialist for the Franklin County Health Department, teaches Kristy Dikeman of Ratcliff, left, and Deloris Jones of Ozark how to use software for entering data during upcoming flu shot mass clinics in Franklin and Crawford counties. Both are students in the Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus Health Information Technology (HIT) program, which has volunteered to help during the clinics.

 

Several Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus students are helping this week with mass flu clinics in Franklin, Johnson and Sebastian counties.

The students, who are enrolled in the Health Information Technology (HIT) program, have been trained by the Franklin County Health Department to use software for entering data during the clinics.

The following is a list of mass flu clinics at which HIT students will be helping:

  • Charleston, Oct. 22, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., Community Center, 311 Freeman Road, walk-in clinic;
  • Ozark, Oct. 25, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., North Franklin County Fair building, 802 N. 20th St., walk-in;
  • Booneville, Oct. 25, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., First Baptist Church, 330 N. Kennedy, walk-in;
  • Van Buren, Oct. 25, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Office of Emergency Management, 1820 Chestnut, walk-in;
  • Clarksville, Oct. 26, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Marvin Vinson Complex, 1611 Oakland St., walk-in;
  • Fort Smith, Oct. 26, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., Sebastian County Health Unit, 3112 S. 70th St., walk-in.

Also, clinics will be held in the following Franklin, Polk and Scott county locations:

  • Paris, Oct. 22, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., First National Bank Community Center, 11 E. Main St., walk-in;
  • Mena, Oct. 22, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Polk County Health Unit, 702 Hornbeck Ave., walk-in and drive-through;
  • Waldron, Oct. 22, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Waldron First Church of the Nazarene, 1812 Rice Road, walk-in.

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