[2018 Bull’s-Eye Award Winner!] While many states have state laws or regents’ policies requiring prematriculation immunization requirements, Washington state has no such policy in place. Despite the 2004 Washington law requiring dissemination of information about meningococcal disease and vaccination, only…
The North Dakota immunization program requires providers to submit monthly temperature logs to ensure that vaccine is stored at the correct temperatures. Logs are reviewed by staff to find previously unreported excursions. Data was tracked for a one-year period to…
The Ryan White program provides primary healthcare and support services to individuals diagnosed with HIV and AIDS. Individuals living with HIV/AIDS are recommended to receive additional immunizations above what is normally recommended for their age group, as they are a…
[2018 Bull’s-Eye Award Winner!] To better understand North Dakota’s decreasing immunization rates, increasing exemption rates, and the large number of students with an unknown immunization status, the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) implemented quality improvement to increase rates at…
To engage community and healthcare partners in an Idaho Statewide Cancer Prevention activity, an HPV Vaccination Day was held in February 2017. The purpose of the statewide HPV Vaccination Day was to raise awareness among parents of adolescents and create…
The Kentucky Immunization Program (KIP) worked persistently to ensure additional protection for Kentucky’s children through increased and/or enforceable immunization requirements. The new legislation was drafted, reviewed, open for public comments, and finally passed after two years of dedicated work by…
Reminder/recall systems are an evidence-based strategy to increase immunization coverage among children and adolescents. To expand and enhance the recall function in New York City’s IIS, provider-based text message recall functionality was added to the IIS to alert parents of…
In 2015, New York State’s law changed to include a requirement for students entering grades 7 and 12 in NYS schools to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease. The immunization program needed to rapidly raise awareness of the new requirement among…
Tennessee: The Tennessee Immunization Program developed a monthly report, coined the “3-Star Report,” as a continuous quality improvement measure for local health departments (LHD) aimed at increasing bundled administration of Tdap, Men-ACWY, and HPV vaccines during the same visit. The…
A mumps outbreak centered around a popular neighborhood lead the NYC immunization program to pursue a social media campaign after traditional outreach activities were not reaching the target population. Ad space was purchased on Facebook during the outbreak to increase…