Preventive Guidelines for Your Health
Good Health Starts with Prevention
Hill Physicians recommends certain screenings and exams for early detection and treatment of health risks before they become problems, or to monitor and manage your known risk factors. Recommended screenings and their frequency vary according to gender, age and your health status. These guidelines are general in nature and the judgment and experience of your physician, informed by these standards of care and as applied to your specific case, are the final determinants of patient care.
The following guidelines are intended to help you begin discussing an appropriate schedule of screenings for you, your spouse or your child.
Prevention Starts with Immunization
Vaccinations are an essential part of preventive health. In the United States, serious illnesses such as measles, polio and hepatitis B are rare because most children have completed a regular schedule of vaccinations. Completing vaccinations in a timely manner not only protects your child, it also prevents disease from spreading to others. It is equally important for adolescents, teens and adults to continue receiving booster vaccinations throughout one’s lifetime.
Hill Physicians will reimburse members for seasonal flu shots, H1N1 flu shots, and Zostavax vaccines administered outside the Hill Physicians network. Click here to download the appropriate reimbursement form. . .
Managing side effects
Side effects of vaccinations include fever, crankiness and soreness at the site of the shot. If your child experiences these side effects, give him or her acetaminophen and a warm compress at the site of the shot for comfort. Symptoms should disappear after one to three days.
Safety concerns
In the past, some parents avoided vaccines because they feared these shots could cause developmental problems. According to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, research does not support any link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine or the pertussis component of the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine and autism.
View recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
Print a blank childhood and adolescent immunization record for your child.
Member Vaccine Reimbursement Forms