WEST CHESTER, PA — The Travel Medicine Program, located at Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital’s Occupational Health Centers (OHC), offers travelers a wide range of services and access to care for a variety of needs such as vaccines and boosters, as well as quick, convenient scheduling. In addition to making sure patients are adequately vaccinated ahead of travel, the program is designed to ensure travelers are in good health and are educated on potential health risks they might encounter at their destination.
“An informed traveler is always going to be a safer traveler because they know what they need to do to maintain that safety,” says Margaret Stroz, MD, the lead physician of CCH’s Travel Medicine Program.
Based on a traveler’s itinerary, immunization record, and medical history, Dr. Stroz and her team provide vaccine recommendations and advice on how the traveler can best protect themselves from both everyday threats, such as unsanitary drinking water and mosquito bites that infect people with disease, to escalating outbreaks. They also offer preventive medications for a range of travel-related conditions that include anything from Malaria, Japanese Encephalitis, and Yellow Fever to traveler’s diarrhea, altitude sickness, and motion sickness.
Dr. Stroz has been providing Travel Medicine consultations at the hospital for the last 20 years. In coordination with the Travel Medicine care team, Dr. Stroz takes her guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization, and International Society of Travel Medicine.
Group travel services are also offered and include in-person or virtual education sessions, individual assessments, and a discount on travelers’ consultation fees. Travel medicine consultations should be scheduled at least two weeks in advance of your trip, although two to three months is ideal.
The Occupational Health Center at CCH offers travel medicine support at two locations: Fern Hill Medical Campus in West Chester, and the Medical Office Building at New Garden in Kennett Square. For more information on these two locations, visit www.chestercountyhospital.org/services-and-treatments/occupational-health-center.
For more information on travel medicine, vaccine appointment scheduling, or group travel information, please visit the Travel Medicine Program website.
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