Front page – March 2006
Required shots
improve immunization rate
The hospital of Virginia
Mason Medical Center in Seattle achieved a 96% influenza immunization rate
through implementation of a new mandatory influenza immunization policy.
Hospital officials met with and educated all individuals who did not
wish to receive the vaccine, who did not have medical or religious exemptions,
according to Joyce Lammert, MD, deputy chief of medicine at the center, but in
the end, those people who did not comply were let go.
She said that to
date no one let go under the new policy has contested his or her termination.
Weeks after Virginia Mason announced its success, the CDC published
stronger recommendations for universal influenza vaccination for health care
workers that suggest medical facilities obtain a signed form from staff who
decline vaccination for reasons other than a medical contraindication.
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