{"id":35318,"date":"2018-10-11T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35318"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:27:52","slug":"flu-shot-options-available-for-employees-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35318","title":{"rendered":"Flu shot options available for employees and students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35013\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35013\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"Vice Chancellor Bakari prepares for his flu shot\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sentwali Bakari, vice chancellor, Student Success, prepares for his flu shot at the Health and Wellness Fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Employees can receive free flu shots during two October clinic sessions on campus and students can receive $20 flu shots through the Wellness Center anytime during the year.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Permanente is offering free shots to all UCCS faculty, staff and spouses. Clinics will be held from 9:30 a.m.\u00a0to noon Oct. 18 and from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 24 in University Center room 303. No registration is required.<\/p>\n<p>CU Health Plan members are eligible for free shots through their primary care provider.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cu.edu\/employee-services\/benefits-wellness\/current-employee\/medical-plans\">Visit the CU Employee Services website to find a provider.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students can receive flu shots for $20 at the Wellness Center. Call (719) 255-4444 to schedule an appointment or walk in between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, between 5-20 percent of the U.S. population contracts the flu virus. Read more about this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/hcp\/vis\/vis-statements\/flu.html\">vaccine.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Employees can receive free flu shots during two October clinic sessions on campus and students can receive $20 flu shots through the Wellness Center anytime during the year. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=35318\" title=\"Flu shot options available for employees and students\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[44,64,85,60],"class_list":["post-35318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-health-and-wellness","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-gallogly-recreation-and-wellness-center","tag-human-resources","tag-student-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC_0794.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-9bE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35324,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318\/revisions\/35324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}