Geisinger Begins Hosting Super Saturday Flu Shot Clinics

Drive-through flu shots offered systemwide for access, convenience

Flu season is quickly approaching, and Geisinger is again making it easy to get vaccinated at Super Saturday drive-through flu shot events. 

This Saturday, Sept. 14, is the first Super Saturday event of the season. Drive-thru flu shots will be available for anyone age 3 and older at dozens of participating Geisinger locations. Patients 6 months and older can receive their flu shot at Geisinger pediatrics locations. 

All Super Saturday flu vaccine events are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Events will also be held Oct. 12 and Oct. 26.

“By getting immunized, you are protecting yourself against serious illness while also reducing your risk of getting hospitalized and keeping yourself from spreading the flu to those at high risk of severe illness, including children, the elderly and those immunocompromised,” said Stanley Martin, M.D., Geisinger director of infectious diseases.

Flu season typically begins in the fall and lasts throughout the winter, although the virus can be spread year-round. Peak flu activity is generally between December and February but can extend as late as May.

Super Saturday drive-throughs will be held at the following Geisinger locations:

Central Region:

Clinics

  • Geisinger Berwick (2200 W. Front St.)
  • Geisinger Medical Clinic Buckhorn (240 Mall Blvd.)
  • Geisinger Frackville (701 West Oak St.)
  • Geisinger Kulpmont (119 Nevada Drive)
  • Geisinger Lewisburg (250 Reitz Blvd.)
  • Geisinger Orwigsburg (300 Hollywood Blvd.)
  • Geisinger Pottsville (529 Terry Reiley Way)
  • Geisinger Selinsgrove (201 Roosevelt Ave.)
  • Geisinger Woodbine (16 Woodbine Lane)

Pediatrics 

  • Geisinger Pediatrics Pottsville (529 Terry Reiley Way)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Lewisburg (55 Medical Park Drive)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Woodbine (16 Woodbine Lane)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Bloomsburg (2407 Reichard Road)

65 Forward

  • Geisinger 65 Forward Buckhorn (240 Mall Blvd.)
  • Geisinger 65 Forward Pottsville (529 Terry Reiley Way)
  • Geisinger 65 Forward Shamokin Coal Township (933 Route 61)

North Central Region:

Clinics

  • Geisinger Medical Clinic Lock Haven (68 Spring St.)
  • Geisinger Medical Center Muncy (255 Route 220)

Pediatrics

  • Geisinger Pediatrics Lock Haven (68 Spring St.)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Muncy (255 Route 220)

Western Region:

Clinics

  • Geisinger Healthplex State College (132 Abigail Lane)
  • Geisinger Philipsburg (210 Medical Center Drive)
  • Geisinger Lewistown (21 Geisinger Lane)
  • Geisinger Mifflintown (27 CJEMS Lane,)

Pediatrics

  • Geisinger Pediatrics Healthplex State College (132 Abigail Lane)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Lewistown (21 Geisinger Lane)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Philipsburg (210 Medical Drive)

65 Forward 

  • Geisinger 65 Forward State College (293 Patriot Lane, Trader Joe’s Plaza)

Northeast Region:

Clinics

  • Geisinger Dallas Cleary Drive (114 Lt. Michael Cleary Drive)
  • Geisinger Kingston (560 Pierce St.)
  • Geisinger Mountain Top (35 S. Mountain Blvd.)
  • Geisinger Mt. Pocono (126 Market Way)
  • Geisinger Pittston (42 N. Main St.) 
  • Geisinger Mt. Pleasant (531 Mt. Pleasant Drive)
  • Geisinger Tunkhannock (809 Hunter Highway)

CommunityCare

  • CommunityCare Hazleton (426 Airport Road)
  • CommunityCare Kistler Clinic (175 S. Wilkes-Barre Blvd.)
  • CommunityCare Mt. Pleasant (531 Mt. Pleasant Blvd.)

Pediatrics

  • Geisinger Pediatrics Mt. Pocono (126 Market Way)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Scranton (5 Morgan Highway)
  • Geisinger Pediatrics Forty Fort (190 Welles St.)

65 Forward

  • Geisinger 65 Forward Hazleton (20 Diana Lane)
  • Geisinger 65 Forward Kingston (499 Wyoming Ave.)
  • Geisinger 65 Forward Scranton (3 W. Olive St.)
  • Geisinger 65 Forward Wilkes-Barre (41 S. Main St.) – Oct. 12 and 26 only

Preregistration is not necessary. Just drive up, roll down your window, fill out a brief form and get your shot. Our drive-through event staff may invite you and your children inside if they believe you’ll be safer and more comfortable getting your shots there. 

For the full list of Super Saturday locations and tips to stay healthy this flu season, visit geisinger.org/flu.

The Wright Center Announces Flu Shot Reminder

As the thick of the holiday season, one of the happiest, most festive times of the year approaches, so does peak flu season.

The last few years have been dominated by COVID-19, which, though not nearly the public health threat it once was, continues to spread throughout the population via its newest strain. Couple that with the flu and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), and you have an unholy triumvirate of respiratory illnesses capable of wreaking significant havoc and ruining your yuletide cheer.

Thankfully, there are vaccines to keep these viruses at bay. They’re safe and effective and can save you and your loved ones from getting sick or worse.

National Influenza Vaccination Week, takes place next week, Dec. 4-8. Coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the annual observance serves as a helpful reminder to people that there’s still time to get a flu shot this season. This year’s slogan is the highly appropriate “A flu vaccine can take flu from wild to mild.”

Typically, flu season begins around late September or early October (the ideal time to get vaccinated), then increasingly accelerates until it peaks between December and February. In some years, infections may occur as late as May.

The best thing you can do to protect yourself from the flu – and lessen its effects if you do contract it – is to get the annual flu shot, which is available to anyone ages 6 months and older. CDC studies have shown that flu vaccination reduces the risk of contracting the illness by 40 to 60 percent among the general public.

Flu symptoms typically surface within a couple of days, and the virus shares many of the same effects as COVID-19, among them fever, chills, dry cough, body aches, headaches, stuffy/runny nose, shortness of breath, and fatigue.

For specific vulnerable populations, vaccination is essential given their risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and even death. That list includes pregnant women, young children, adults ages 65 and older, and those with serious health conditions like cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, asthma, and kidney disease. In the case of kids, thousands are hospitalized every year with severe flu, according to the CDC.

The Wright Center will now provide flu vaccinations at all Northeast Pennsylvania locations. To schedule an office visit that includes vaccination, call 570-230-0019 or go online to use the express scheduling system at TheWrightCenter.org.

Meanwhile, many local pharmacies offer free flu shots to insured customers, and numerous local employers provide flu vaccinations as a free service to their workers.

According to the CDC, all flu vaccines available in the U.S. this season are the quadrivalent variety, designed to protect against four different flu viruses.

You want the holidays to be as joyous as possible without the threat of illness upending your plans. So, get the flu vaccine – it’s safe, effective, and one of the best gifts you can give yourself and others this season.

Joshua Braddell, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, a board-certified registered nurse practitioner, serves as medical director of The Wright Center for Community Health Mid Valley practice.