The Central Connecticut Health District (CCHD) urges all Connecticut residents to stay up to date on their immunizations.

In response to the start of the fast-approaching 2024-2025 influenza season this fall, CCHD will be hosting nine flu clinics during the month of October 2024, amongst our four district towns of Berlin, Newington, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield.

 

In addition, we are partnering with Beacon Prescriptions this year to offer additional vaccines (RSV, COVID-19, Shingles & Pneumococcal) at multiple flu vaccine clinics, both in the community and at our Clinical Health Services location.

  • APPOINTMENTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR FLU VACCINES THROUGH CCHD.

  • VACCINES OFFERED BY BEACON PRESCRIPTIONS (COVID-19, RSV, SHINGLES, PNEUMOCOCCAL) ARE WALK-IN ONLY. APPOINTMENTS NOT AVAILABLE.

Starting in October, CCHD will offer two clinics per week - both a morning clinic (10 AM – 2 PM) and an afternoon clinic (2 PM – 6 PM) - per district town for a total of 8 clinics. These clinics are for ages 3+. An additional Family/Pediatric clinic will be held mid-month on Saturday morning for families with children ages 4-17 years of age. Please note that CCHD will only offer ONE Drive-Thru clinic (Wethersfield) this year, with the remaining clinics held indoors.

Additional sensory-friendly and accessible appointments with drive-through services will be offered throughout the fall and winter at our clinical health services location.

Please read prior to scheduling an appointment

Starting This year, AN ACCOUNT WILL BE REQUIRED in order to make a FLU APPOINTMENT

This year, we are utilizing our electronic health record (EHR) called IMS for our flu vaccine scheduling. This platform is integrated with our billing system and will be the platform we utilize for all medical appointments through Central Connecticut Health District going forward. This change was made in order to provide our patients with a more comprehensive and streamlined experience through CCHD’s clinical services offerings.

If you have already received a flu vaccine through CCHD:

You will be able to look up your account any of the ways listed below. All patients who have recieved a flu vaccine through CCHD in the past will be in our database, regardless of if you have registered for an account.

If you are new to CCHD flu clinics:

You will need to create an account prior to booking your appointment with either:

  • your email address

  • your cell phone number

A code will be sent during the registration process, and you will need to access and provide the code to complete registration.

If you do not have an email address OR a cell phone number, please call us at: 860-785-8380 x 216 and we will make your appointment with you over the phone.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are a parent/guardian scheduling appointments for your children, or if you are an adult making an appointment for someone other than yourself, each individual needs their OWN account and an appointment made under their OWN name.

Creating appointments for your children/other family members under your name will cause a delay for you at our clinic, and you will be required to complete the registration process again. Our new computer system is directly uploading vaccine records to CTWiz so it is CRUCIAL that all appointments are made under the patient’s name to ensure that accurate records are transferred.

Make an appointment below:

VACCINES PROVIDED THROUGH BEACON PRESCRIPTIONS (COVID-19, RSV, PNEUMOCOCCAL & SHINGLES) DO NOT REQUIRE AN APPOINTMENT at our Rocky Hill senior center and Newington Senior Center locations.

Rocky Hill Senior Center:

Walk-In only

October 2 - 2pm-6pm

October 3 - 10am-2pm

Newington Senior & Disabled Center:

Walk-in only

October 16 - 2pm-6pm

October 17 - 10am-2pm

CCHD CLinical Health Services:

Walk-In OR make an appointment by clicking the button below

November 4 - 10am-2pm

November 12- 9am-3pm

November 19- 2pm-7pm

New this year:

all clinics will be Sensory friendly and accessible

This year, our vaccination staff will be specially trained in sensory-friendly and accessible patient and family care.

We will have multiple sensory accommodations available (fidgets, noise-cancelling headphones, etc) as well as a quiet and comfortable environment waiting area.

Our goal is to individualize our care for each of our patients, so if you, your child or your family member needs any of the following, please choose “yes” for accommodations on your registration and email our clinical director (lcoakley@ccthd.org) with details.

-Extra time

-Reduced noise or light

-The use of distraction and comfort items

-A vaccine administered in your vehicle

-A separate waiting room space

-Communication aids and/or tools

-Any individual accommodations that would make your vaccine experience more positive

Ryder the therapy dog will be at our Newington Family clinic on 10/19 from 1oam-noon!

Sensory-Friendly Tools for Patient/Family Use:

 
 

  • Influenza (flu) is a highly contagious viral respiratory infection (nose, throat, and lungs) that can result in mild to severe illness potentially requiring hospitalization and can in some cases, lead to death. Within the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates the flu disease burden has accounted for 9 million – 41 million illnesses, 140,000 – 710,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 – 52,000 deaths annually since 2010.

  • There are two main types of influenza (flu) viruses (Types A and B) that are routinely responsible for seasonal flu epidemics each year. Flu symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, muscle/body aches, runny/stuffy nose, headache, and fatigue. Complications, including COVID-19 coinfection, include viral & bacterial pneumonias, worsening of existing chronic medical conditions and respiratory arrest. For more information on flu, please visit CDC’s Influenza page.

  • Please be advised that both seasonal influenza and COVID-19, both propagated by viral respiratory infections, will once again coincide and have the potential to coinfect individuals this fall/winter. Data suggest flu vaccination may protect against severe COVID-19 outcomes and may reduce the likelihood of both emergency department (ED) / intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. Vaccination is the primary method to provide systemic immunity, thus CCHD strongly urges all Connecticut residents to both vaccinate against influenza and stay up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines.