Twyla Anderson

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  "We start the policy at the first case of either flu or RSV," said Twyla Anderson, an MMC infection control nurse.
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  "They can't be left unattended, for their own safety," Anderson said.

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  "If you get the vaccine, the episode or the illness should be less severe than it would be otherwise if you didn't get the vaccine," said Twyla Anderson, employee health infection control nurse at Memorial Medical Center.

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  "We start the policy at the first case of either flu or RSV," said Twyla Anderson, infection control nurse at Memorial.
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  "They can't be left unattended, for their own safety," Anderson said.

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  Published on: 9/21/2008    Last Visited: 9/21/2008  

  In addition, Memorial Medical Center has scheduled its annual large-scale vaccination clinic for Oct. 25, said Twyla Anderson, employee health and infection control nurse for the hospital.The hospital typically gives out about 4,000 free vaccinations to community members.It will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  
  The Memorial Medical Center clinic is for adults ages 18 and older.
  
  Even so, Anderson said, health-care providers are emphasizing this year the importance of vaccinating children.
  
  "Oftentimes they make mom and dad and grandma and grandpa sick, too," she said.

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  Published on: 11/8/2005    Last Visited: 11/8/2005  

  Twyla Anderson, a nurse at Memorial Medical Center, said the hospital does have emergency preparedness plans in place that could address a flu pandemic.It also participates in "tabletop exercises," in which emergency scenarios are invented, and hospital officials have to deal with them.
  
  "They put a scenario out there, and you have to deal with this huge influx of patients," she said."It's all done by paper, but it's a drill."
  
  The hospital also would await specific direction from the state, Anderson said.

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  Las Cruces Sun-News Flu shot restrictions grow tighter - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/19/2004    Last Visited: 10/19/2004  

  Twyla Anderson, nurse at Memorial Medical Center, said the hospital has no further clinics planned and likely won't have any more this year.

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  Published on: 12/5/2003    Last Visited: 12/7/2003  

  Twyla Anderson, an Occupational Health Nurse who works in the Health Services and Infection Control Department at Memorial Medical Center, said the additional flu vaccine will be issued by the state Health Department."They're the lead agency on this and they will determine how and where those additional flu shots will go," Anderson said.

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  Las Cruces Sun-News Flu vaccine short - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 10/6/2004  

  Twyla Anderson, a Memorial Medical Center nurse, said the shortage will not affect MMC because the hospital buys its vaccine from Aventis, a different pharmaceutical company. "Right now we have received all of the vaccines we ordered," Anderson said.MMC has 6,000 doses, she said; most of these will be administered during a free clinic Saturday.

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  Las Cruces Sun-News Season’s influenza virus hasn’t... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/15/2005    Last Visited: 2/15/2005  

  Twyla Anderson, occupational health nurse at Memorial Medical Center, said the hospital has not seen the spike in flu-like illnesses the rest of the state is experiencing.The hospital also does not test for the presence of the flu virus, she said.
  
  Cases of flu-like symptoms have been "remaining steady the last few weeks," she said.

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  Las Cruces Sun-News State asks some to skip flu shots - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/7/2004    Last Visited: 10/7/2004  

  "The (Centers for Disease Control) recommendation has been voluntary, not mandatory, rationing of the vaccine," Twyla Anderson, a Memorial Medical Center nurse, said. Anderson said it would be difficult to screen all of the people who show up for a flu shot to determine whether they fall into a high-risk category or not."We're still planning on moving forward with our clinic on Saturday," Anderson said.

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