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FUMA provides much needed flu shots for local nursing care facility
"It really could be a life and death situation for some of the people here," says Jane Pendergrass of the Ruxton Village Nursing Center in Fork Union, one of many groups affected by the current shortage in the supply of flu vaccine. The facility is home to sixty elderly patients and those recuperating from recent hospital stays, and had received none of the scarce vaccine for its high-risk patients.
Thanks to Fork Union Military Academy, those patients will be receiving their flu shots this year. The Academy provides flu shots each year for its nearly 600 cadets in grades 6 through 12, teachers, staff, and families.
When Lt. General John Jackson, President of Fork Union Military Academy, learned of the need at the local nursing home, he immediately established a new priority list for who would receive flu shots this year. First on the list: the patients and staff of the nursing center. Fork Union Military Academy provided all the immunizations the center required before it began inoculating its own cadets and high-risk faculty members, as specified in the guidelines issued by the Center for Disease Control.
"It really was a very generous thing to do," said Pendergrass. "I don't know what we would have done if they hadn't made their stock of vaccine available to us."
"It was the right thing to do," said General Jackson.
Posted by CPT Dan Thompson, Saturday, October 16, 2004 12:23 PM
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