Sharp Coronado Hospital is once again preparing for its Free Flu Shot Clinic this month (October 13, 14, and 28), a service they’ve been able to provide for the community for decades in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health.
Recently, Lindsay Schimpf, a Registered Nurse and Infection Preventionist at Sharp Coronado, spoke about the clinic and her work as a certified infection control professional.
“The free flu shot clinics are something that Sharp Coronado has been very dedicated to for a long time and invests quite a bit of resources into it,” Schimpf said. “Our infection prevention department runs the show. It’s through a program that is administered through the County, but with vaccines that are funded by the state of California through the California Departme