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The Summit County Health District offers many services to assist your employees in maintaining their health. Employees may come to the SCHD to receive clinic services or, for a $50 site fee, nurses will come to your facility to provide services when allowable.

The professionals at the Summit County Health District can also provide health education and training for your staff.
If interested, please call Joy Gidley at 330-926-5708.   

On March 30, 2009, the Summit County Council proclaimed June Teen Immunization Month.  This initiative began last year with a collaboration between the Summit County Health District, Akron City Health Department, Barberton City Health Department, Akron Children’s Hospital and the Immunization Coalition of Summit County. 

This group came together because we recognized how important it is to get our teens immunized.  There are many diseases we are able to prevent today that we were unable to even 10 years ago.   New immunizations provide protection for our teens yet immunization rates for teens in the United States remain far below national goals.

Immunizations have been proven to provide important benefits to teens, especially as they grow into adults.   Lowering disease rates among teens also assists in reducing the chance of spreading diseases to the elderly, children, and infants. Protection for one means protection for all.

Immunizations can help:

• Keep teens healthy
• Prevent problems as they grow older
• Prevent the spread of disease

Today, immunizations protect teens from:                                   

• Hepatitis A – This disease can lead to liver failure and death.
• Hepatitis B – This disease can lead to liver cancer, liver failure and death.
• Meningitis (meningococcus) This bacterial infection poses a serious threat to teens.  Meningitis can kill a healthy person in 48 hours or less. Survivors of meningitis have problems that last the rest of their lives.
• Whooping cough (pertussis) – This disease is spread by coughing and sneezing. Anyone can catch pertussis and spread it to others.
• Tetanus -  This bacteria can lead to convulsions, fractures, pulmonary embolism and death.
• HPV (Human papillomavirus) – HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer in women.
• Chicken Pox – This disease causes fever and rash. In rare cases it can cause serious health problems.

Teens should receive the following vaccinations:

• HAV to protect against Hepatitis A ( Two doses recommended)
• HBV to protect against Hepatitis B (Three doses recommended)
• MCV4 to protect against Meningitis
• Tdap to protect against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis
• HPV (female patients only) to protect against HPV disease
• Varicella to protect against chickenpox

The following are places you can receive immunizations if
you do not have a primary care provider. 
Remember to bring your shot record!

Summit County Health District - Central
1100 Graham Rd. Circle, Stow  
Phone: 330-926-5681 
Daytime & evening hours available

Summit County Health District - South
2891 East Waterloo Rd., Suite D, Akron
330-926-5681
Daytime & evening hours available                                                                                                     

Akron Health Department
66 Merriman, Akron
Phone: 330-375-2361
Daytime hours only                                       

Barberton Health District
571 W. Tuscarawas Ave., Barberton
Phone: 330-745-6869
Daytime hours only

Child Immunization Clinic

SCHD strives to ensure that children are protected from diseases which can cause serious illness, permanent damage or death.  Diseases that once spread quickly and killed thousands are now largely controlled by vaccines.

The CDC recommends vaccinating children against most vaccine-preventable diseases by the time they are two years old, because these diseases are more common and more deadly among infants and young children.

Vaccination protects not only the child receiving the vaccine but also those in the child's community.

SCHD participates in the Vaccine For Children Program.

• The VFC program is administered at the national level by CDC
• VCF helps families by providing free vaccines to SCHD*
• SCHD only charges an administration fee of $12 per VFC shot
• Children through 18 years of age who meet at least one of the following criteria are eligible to receive VFC vaccine:
  
  

  Medicaid eligible:  A child who is eligible for the Medicaid program. (For the purposes of the VFC program, the terms "Medicaid-eligible" and "Medicaid-enrolled" are equivalent and refer to children who have health insurance covered by a state Medicaid program) Uninsured:  A child who has no health insurance coverage American Indian or Alaska Native:  As defined by the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603) Under-Insured: A child who has commercial (private) health insurance but the coverage does not include vaccines.

* Call (330) 926-5681 for a list of
VFC vaccines and prices.

• Flu
• Pneumonia
• Shingles
• Pertussis
• Tetanus
• Diptheria
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Measles, Mumps and Rubella
• Varicella
• Human Papilloma Virus

Diseases that once spread quickly and killed thousands are now largely controlled by vaccines.  Vaccination protects not only the person receiving the vaccine, but also those in the community.

Please call (330) 926-5681
for vaccine information
and pricing.

Frequently Asked Questions about Adult Vaccines

Q: Why do I need a Tdap instead of a regular tetanus booster?
A:  Immunity to pertussis (whooping cough) usually wanes as we grow older.  Teenagers and adults infected with pertussis can infect infants and children who have not completed their childhood vaccination series.  Young children are at the greatest risk for complications associated with pertussis illness.

Q:  How old do you have to be to receive Zostavax (Shingles)?
A:  Sixty years old.

Q:  What if I have one type of HPV, can I still get the vaccine?
A:  Yes.  Today most young women can still benefit.  Even women who were already infected with one or more of the four HPV types targeted by the vaccine were protected from clinical disease caused by the remaining HPV types in the vaccine.