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What's New!Vermont Academy of Family Physicians ANNUAL
MEETING
Central Vermont Medical Center
Working with
Specialty Providers to Increase Rates of Children with Chronic Illness
Immunized Annually with Seasonal Influenza Vaccine: Your Help Needed!
The Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) is working with the Children’s Specialty Center (CSC) of the Vermont Children’s Hospital to increase the rates of children vaccinated annually against seasonal influenza in the pediatric nephrology, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes clinics. As you know, children with chronic illness are at particularly high risk for complications of influenza. VCHIP has obtained UVM Institutional Review Board and HIPAA approval for this quality improvement research project with these clinics.
In this project, we are striving to optimize the medical home as Vermont’s primary immunization delivery resource. With this in mind, the specialty clinics are:
As part of this project, many physician practices, via their vaccine managers, will be receiving a faxed communication and request from VCHIP later this month on behalf of the physician leaders of the above-mentioned CSC clinics. (Ann Guillot, MD; Tom Lahiri, MD; and Paul [P.J.] Zimakas, MD). We are making you aware of these faxed communications to enable you, if so desired, to discuss how they should be handled in advance by your practice vaccine manager.
The faxes will contain:
1. A list of patients who, according to the records of the three clinics, receive specialty care in the CSC and primary care in your practice. The list is provided to help facilitate your outreach to immunize these children as soon as possible with 2009-2010 influenza vaccine.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Your collaboration and support of this project is paramount to its success. Please contact the Project Director, Kathleen Keating, RN at 802-656-9190 or Kathleen.keating@uvm.edu if you have any questions about this project.
** Swine Flu Information from the Vermont Department of Health ** |
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