Orange County Child Care Association

Provide, Promote and Support Quality Licensed Family Child Care

 

  Immunizations

Part of the responsibility of being an FCCP is to ensure that the children in your care are up-to-date with their immunizations or that you have secured the parents signature waiver.

 

The health board also offers FREE immunization and health check clinics for parents. For more information go the OC Department of Health Services website or contact the Health Referral Line.

 

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SPECIAL NOTICE - 2009

HIB Vaccine Shortage

Click Here for Special Immunization Schedule(SIS)

 

 

Immunization Charts & Information

 

Immunizations – Parent’s Guide IMM-222 (06/02)

Exemption Information Sheet

Dept. of Health – Annual Family Day Care Home Immunization Survey DHS8529 (10/00)

 

Requirements for Child Care Entry

 

Age

Vaccine and doses required

Under 2 months

No requirements

2 - 3 months

1 polio, 1 DTaP / DTP / DT, 1 Hib, 1 Hepatitis B

4 - 5 months

2 polio, 2 DTaP / DTP / DT, 2 Hib, 2 Hepatitis B

6 - 14 months

2 polio, 3 DTaP / DTP / DT, 2 Hib, 2 Hepatitis B

15 - 17 months

3 polio, 3 DTaP / DTP / DT, 2 Hepatitis B, 1 varicella* (or proof of having had chicken pox disease), 1 MMR and 1 Hib both given on or after first birthday

18 months - 5 years

3 polio, 4 DTaP / DTP / DT, 3 Hepatitis B, 1 varicella* (or proof of having had chicken pox disease), 1 MMR and 1 Hib both given on or after first birthday

*Varicella requirement effective July 1, 2001

The above chart is from the Orange County HCA California Children’s Services.

 

FREE Immunization Clinics

Contact the Health Referral Line to verify dates & times

·       Clinics held at OC Health Care Agencies

·       No appointment necessary

·       Parent or guardian must be present

·       Bring all immunization records

 

For information on other FREE immunization clinics and to learn about the availability of FREE check-ups call the Health Referral Line. (hours and days subject to change)

 

Buena Park

6301 Beach Blvd., Suite 103

Clinic Open: Monday

Hours: 8am – 4:30pm  Closed 11:30am to 12:30 pm

 

Clinic Open: Wednesday:

Hours: 10:00am – 7:30pm Closed from 2:00pm to 3:00pm

 

Friday: Call the Health Referral Line for Friday schedule

 

Santa Ana

1725 West 17th St

Clinic Open: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Hours: 8am – 4:30pm Closed 11:45am -12:45 pm

 

Clinic Open: Tuesday

Hours: 8am – 7:30pm (call for closures times)

 

Disease, Symptoms and Vaccine Information

 

disease

symptoms

vaccine

Polio

This virus can cause people to be paralyzed. Polio may cause death.

IPV vaccine
3 doses two months apart starting at age 2 months. Booster at kindergarten.

Diphtheria

Can make people unable to breath or move. Can cause heart damage. One out of ten people who get diphtheria die.

DTaP vaccine 
3 doses two months apart starting at age 2 months.  Fourth dose given at age 15 months. Booster doses at kindergarten and age 15 years.

Tetanus

Also called lockjaw. Caused by a bacteria in the soil. Enters body through a cut or scratch.  Three out of ten people who get tetanus die.

Pertussis

Also called whooping cough.  This disease is most serious for babies. About half of the babies who get pertussis require hospitalization. Can cause choking, pneumonia and brain damage. Can cause death.

Measles

Very easily spread. Symptoms include a rash, fever, cough and watery eyes. Can cause pneumonia, brain damage, hearing loss or death. Forty four children died during the California measles outbreak in 1989-91.

MMR vaccine
First dose at one year of age. Second dose at 4 - 6 years.

Mumps

Symptoms include fever, headache and swollen, painful glands under the jaw. Can cause swelling of the brain and spinal column. Can cause deafness.

Rubella

Known as German Measles.  Usually a mild illness in children. Most dangerous for pregnant women. Can cause the baby to be born blind, deaf, brain damaged or with heart defects.

Hib Meningitis

Most serious for babies. Can cause several diseases including meningitis (an infection of the spinal column and brain), pneumonia and infections of the blood, joints, bone, throat and heart covering.  One out of 20 children dies and 1 out of 4 has permanent brain damage.

Hib vaccine  
3 doses two months apart starting at age 2 months. Fourth dose given at age 15 months. This vaccine is not given to children over the age of 5.

Pneumococcal Disease

Pneumococcal disease is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis. Each year pneumococcal disease causes about 17,000 blood infections and about 5 million ear infections. It is responsible for about 200 deaths each year among children under 5 years of age.

Pneumococcal vaccine
For children under 2 years of age: 3 doses two months apart starting at age 2 months. Fourth dose given at age 15 months. This vaccine may be given to older children who are at high risk.

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A is a serious liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). HAV is spread by eating food or drinking water contaminated with HAV or by close personal contact.

HAV vaccine 
2 doses given at least 6 months apart. First dose recommended at 1 year of age.

Hepatitis B

An infection of the liver caused by a virus. In some people the virus stays in the liver for the rest of their lives. Later they can develop severe liver disease, cancer or liver failure.

HBV vaccine
First dose given at birth. Second dose at age two months. Third dose at age 6 months.

Chicken Pox

Causes a rash, itching, tiredness and fever. It can lead to pneumonia, brain damage or death.

Varicella vaccine
One dose given at one year of age.

 

 

 

 

County of Orange

Health Care Agency

Health Referral Line

1.800.564.8448

 

 

 

Need More

California School

Immunization Cards?

 

Call 714-834-8560

to order your supply

 free of charge.

 

Blue Card #PM 286

Pink View Cards

 

Supplies may be available at General Meetings

 

 

 

 

 

Orange County Child Care Association

PO Box 26769

Santa Ana, CA 92799

714.893.0390

949.348.6988