Travel Medicine Services

Group Travel

The Vaccine Center And Travel Medicine Clinic provides personalized services for any size group traveling overseas.  Groups can be seen either at our clinics or we will travel on-site to the client’s facility, home, or church.

We do offer group discounts on our services, so please call us with your group size and itinerary to see how we can help.

We provide Travel Medicine Consultations by reviewing each group member’s specific itinerary, previous immunizations, medical history, allergies and contraindications, and then offer the following:

• All appropriate vaccines (based on CDC Guidelines)
• Draw blood titers in house to prove immunity from previous vaccinations or exposures if requested
• Prescriptions for medications as indicated, including
  • Anti-Malarial,
  • Traveler’s Diarrhea
  • Acute Mountain Sickness Prevention
  • Motion Sickness Prevention
  • Jet Lag, etc.
• Official Yellow Fever Exempt Letters for persons with a medical contraindication to yellow fever vaccine
• Insect precautions and insect repellents
• Blood Clot Prevention for long air flights
• Water and Food precautions
• Current outbreaks and health and safety concerns for areas of travel
• Pre-travel Checklist
• Skin and Wound Care
• Swimming and Water Exposure
• Safety and Crime Avoidance
• Consular Information
• Maps of Malaria and Yellow Fever areas, if appropriate

How To Save Money And Get Better Service By Choosing The Right Travel Medicine Clinic:

1. Only go to clinics that offer both vaccines and prescriptions.  For many itineraries, including Central or South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, CDC guidelines require both vaccinations as well as prescriptions.  For your trip, you may need prescriptions for malaria, travelers’ diarrhea, jet lag, and high-altitude illness prevention.  Some vaccine clinics do NOT offer prescriptions.  Always ask the clinic if they do both.  Otherwise, you may have to pay for two office visits or administrative fees, not to mention the time and inconvenience of having to make two trips to two clinics.  Worse yet, you may go on your trip without knowing you need a prescription.
2. Only go to clinics that carry all the vaccines available in the United States.  Ask the clinic if they carry hard to find vaccines such as Oral Typhoid, Japanese Encephalitis, or Rabies vaccine.  Often, some clinics do not carry all vaccines, or they special order them once they find a client.  The Vaccine Center has all vaccines available in the United States in stock.
3. Only go to clinics that offer you access to a physician if you need it.  Ask the clinic if there is a physician you can talk to if you need to.  Sometimes people have complex medical issues that require physician input.  The Vaccine Center offers access to board- certified physicians if needed.
4. Only go to clinics that can offer you in-house blood tests to check your immunity to vaccines you know you already had, or have been exposed to in your life.  Always ask the clinic if they offer blood titer testing on premise.  In some cases, you may not need the vaccine.  A blood test (blood titer) can cost a fraction of getting the vaccine again.  Further, The Vaccine Center blood titer testing prices are a fraction of most major labs and we do the blood draw right in our clinic.
5. Only go to clinics that focus only in vaccine medicine.  Many so called “vaccine clinics” also do urgent care, primary care, occupational medicine, or other unrelated medical services.  The Vaccine Center does no primary care or other unrelated medical services.
6. Only go to clinics that offer the Yellow Fever vaccine every day.  Some clinics offer this only once every week or two.  Ask the clinic if they offer Yellow Fever vaccines every day.  Since Yellow Fever is required for entry in many countries, this vaccine may be mandatory for your trip.  Also ask the clinic if they are qualified to give you a formal “Yellow Fever Exempt Letter” if you have contraindications to getting the Yellow Fever vaccine.
7. Only go to clinics that do not charge an administrative fee for follow up visits for vaccines in a series.  Always ask if there is an administrative / office fee for subsequent visits.  All Vaccine Center follow-up visits for vaccines in a series are not assessed an administrative or office visit fee.