BATTLE GROUND — A new measles vaccine advocacy organization called Vaccinate Washington has Clark County connections.
Dr. Dino Ramzi, president of the Patient Direct Care clinic in Battle Ground, co-founded Vaccinate Washington with Kathy Hennessy, a special education teacher in Bellingham.
“I have offered vaccinations for free since opening my practice in Clark County. That’s how important I believe them to be,” Ramzi said in a Vaccinate Washington press release. “Immunizations have reduced, eliminated, and even eradicated diseases that our parents and grandparents lived in fear of. Vaccines are the single most positive contribution that science ever made to the public. In the current environment, everyone needs a health professional to kindly and nonjudgmentally get them and their families up-to-date on their recommended vaccines.”
Vaccinate Washington, which is led by parents and community members, has goals to support healthy immunization practices and fight vaccine misinformation, according to the press release. Vaccine Washington also wants to raise the state’s vaccination rates.
