Stephens County Hospital Authority Gets Flu Shots

10/22/2008

Hospital authority members get a shot of illness prevention at their monthly meeting.

At the Stephens County Hospital Authority meeting Monday, authority members literally rolled up their sleeves and got their annual flu shots.

“Mainly, the reason our board gets flu shots is because they want to,” said Hospital Administrator Ed Gambrell. “They know the importance of flu shots and we really have a push here at the hospital to get as many employees a flu shot as will take them.”

Gambrell said for the hospital it is just good business to get everyone inoculated.

“It is just smart,” he added. “It helps us as an employer to not have employees out who are sick. Then, of course, they come into contact with sick patients and so it protects them and of course, it protects our patients, too.”

With flu season just beginning, Gambrell added that for anyone, the flu shot is a good idea.

“The statistics are so much slanted towards people that get flu shots,” he explained. “They either do not get the flu that year, or if they do get it, they have a much milder case.”