The Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) is supporting the Happy Talkers Community Outreach Fair on May 1, 2011 and looks forward to helping to make this year’s event another success. The fair is organized by the School of Imagination (SOI), a non-profit education center in Dublin, CA, and provides a wide range of free developmental screenings for children.
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Pertussis (whooping cough) has reached epidemic proportions in California, prompting a new California state law that requires all students entering the 7th through 12th grades to provide proof of having received a booster vaccination (called Tdap) against the disease.
In February 2011, the State Superintendent of Education, Tom Torlakson, sent a letter to schools informing them about this immunization requirement. Many San Francisco Bay Area school districts in turn contacted parents about this required booster.
“PAMF has tens of thousands of pediatric patients, so we anticipated an increase in calls from parents requesting their child’s immunization records,” said Kathy Korbholz, PAMF vice president of Ancillary Operations. “We coordinated a mass mailing to the parents of all PAMF pediatric patients who are affected by the new law.”
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