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Appointment Availability

At the McLean County Health Department we strive to accommodate your busy schedule and minimize your wait time. Children's immunization appointments can be made by calling (309) 888-5455. Appointments are available during the following times: 

    • Monday - Friday
      8:15 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
    • One Monday late clinic a month
      Until 5:45 p.m.

Insurance Information

The health department accepts private health insurance, Medicaid/Medicare, and private-pay for both adults and children to continue protecting citizens from vaccine-preventable illnesses.

If your health insurance is covered by a different provider than those listed below, please call the health department at (309) 888-5455. We continually seek additional insurance provider partners.

Available vaccines include:
  • Chicken Pox
  • Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis (DTaP)
  • Flu shot
  • Haemophilus influenza type B (HIB)
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
  • Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
  • Meningitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Polio
  • Prevnar 13
  • Rotavirus
  • Tetanus (Td)
  • Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis (Tdap)

Health Insurance accepted:
  • Aetna Health Insurance
  • Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield 
  • Blue Cross Community Mmai
  • Cigna
  • Coventry Health Care
  • Harmony
  • Health Alliance
  • HealthLink
  • HFN
  • Humana
  • Illini Care
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Meridian Health Plan of Illinois
  • Meritain Health
  • Molina Health Care Right Choice
  • Wellpoint
  • United Health Care

Why Immunize/Vaccinate?

Immunizations are one of public health's greatest achievements. Diseases that were once deadly, such as polio and measles, are now mostly eradicated. Unfortunately, thousands of people each year die from vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States. Immunizations are a critical component to keeping our community safe and healthy.

Some diseases (like polio and diphtheria) are becoming very rare in the U.S. Of course, they are becoming rare largely because we have been vaccinating against them for decades. Unless we eliminate the disease completely, it is important to keep immunizing. Even if there are only a few cases of disease today, if we take away the protection given by vaccination, more and more people will be infected and will spread disease to others. We risk undoing the progress we have made over the years. Watch the video below to learn how herd immunity works!

We don't vaccinate just to protect our children. We also vaccinate to protect our grandchildren and their grandchildren. With one disease, smallpox, we "stopped the leak" in the boat by eradicating the disease. Our children don't have to get smallpox shots anymore, because the disease no longer exists. If we keep vaccinating now, parents in the future may be able to trust that diseases like polio and meningitis won't infect, cripple, or kill children. Vaccination is one of the best ways to put an end to the serious effects of certain diseases.