Rio Rancho medical center offers free back-to-school vaccine event
Rio Rancho families will get a free Saturday chance to catch up on school shots at UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center before enrollment stress peaks.
UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center in Rio Rancho will host its first free back-to-school vaccine clinic Saturday, July 11, giving families a no-cost chance to get children ready for school before late-summer enrollment problems pile up.
The clinic will run from 9 a.m. to noon in the hospital’s third-floor family practice clinic at 3001 Broadmoor Blvd NE in Rio Rancho. It is being offered in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Health as part of the state’s broader “Got Shots?” push to boost childhood immunizations before the school year starts.
The clinic will offer standard vaccines required for children from birth through age 18, including shots for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, meningitis, tetanus and HPV. Chris Bouchard, MD, SRMC’s medical director for ambulatory care, said the hospital plans to use distraction techniques to make the experience gentler for children and to combine vaccines into fewer injections when it is safe to do so.
Families who cannot make the Saturday clinic will still have three more chances to get in for walk-in vaccination hours at SRMC on July 17, July 24 and July 31, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
New Mexico’s statewide back-to-school vaccine campaign runs from June 13 through Aug. 29 and includes more than 60 participating locations with evening and weekend hours. In Sandoval County, El Pueblo Health Services in Bernalillo and the Sandoval County Health Commons are among the county sites taking part.
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