Rowland Health Clinic offers free Tdap shots next week

The
Rowland Unified Children’s Health Clinic will open for an extended time to
provide free Tdap shots to Rowland
Unified School students only on Monday, August 8, through Thursday, August 11.
The clinic hours will be from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. The office will be closed for
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The Children’s Clinic is located next door
to Northam Elementary at 17800 E.
Renault Street in La Puente. The number is (626)964-4798. Under the new law, all students entering the seventh to twelfth grades must have a Tdap (whooping cough) shot before they start school.

Parents
must bring their child’s immunization record to get the shot, then
provide written proof of the Tdap
shot to their child’s school.

Rowland Unified parents
may send proof of the Tdap shot the
following ways throughout the summer: by e-mail to tdap@rowland.k12.ca.us; or
drop off, mail or fax to: Pupil Services
at 1928 S. Nogales St., Rowland
Heights CA 91748.

The fax # is (626) 964-6450. Pupil Services phone number is (626)935-8203. More
information about the Tdap shot can
be found at ShotsForSchool.org or at Rowland
Unified’s website Tdap page
.