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New Hanover County offers extended hours for back-to-school vaccine clinic

New Hanover County Health and Human Services is offering a back-to-school vaccine clinic with extended hours for children entering school or day care during the 2026-2027 academic year. (Port City Daily/File)

NEW HANOVER COUNTY — New Hanover County Health and Human Services is offering a back-to-school vaccine clinic with extended hours for children entering school or day care during the 2026-2027 academic year.

The clinic, at 1650 Greenfield St., serves children from birth through age 18. It is open from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from 8 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.

The clinic will remain open until 6:45 p.m. on the following dates:

  • Tuesday, Aug. 18
  • Tuesday, Sept. 1
  • Tuesday, Sept. 15
  • Thursday, Sept. 24

Families should bring their insurance information and each child’s vaccination history. Children will be vaccinated regardless of insurance status, but they must have a record in the North Carolina Immunization Registry or provide a vaccination record from another state.

Available vaccines include:

  • Tdap and DTaP
  • Polio
  • Hepatitis A and B
  • Meningococcal
  • Measles, mumps and rubella
  • Chickenpox
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b
  • Pneumococcal
  • Rotavirus
  • Human papillomavirus vaccines

Certain meningococcal vaccines are required for students entering seventh and 12th grades.

Spanish interpreters will be available on-site, and translation services for additional languages will also be offered.

For more information on immunizations or the clinic, visit Health.NHCgov.com or call 910-798-3500.


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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