Pillar 1: Convenient and easy accessibility | • Use every patient visit type as an opportunity to vaccinate. • Offer open access/walk-in vaccination during office hours. • Promote simultaneous vaccination. • Hold express vaccination clinics outside normal office hours where only influenza or other adolescent vaccines are offered and systems for check-in, screening, and record-keeping are streamlined. • Create a dedicated vaccination station. |
Pillar 2: Patient communication/education | • Provide information about vaccine preventable diseases at the beginning of every visit. • Enroll patients in electronic health portal. • Train staff to discuss vaccines during routine processes. • Discuss the serious nature of vaccine preventable diseases. • Use clinic messages, poster, fliers, electronic message board, website posting, and social media to promote vaccination. • Reach out by email, phone, text, mail, health portal to recommend vaccines that are due. |
Pillar 3: Enhanced systems to promote vaccination | • Ensure sufficient vaccine inventory. • Assess vaccination eligibility for every patient encounter. • Assess immunizations as part of vital signs. • Review and update accurate EMR vaccination record keeping. • Establish standing order protocols. |
Pillar 4: Motivation | • Create a chart to track progress. Set an improvement goal and regularly track progress. • Provide ongoing feedback to staff on vaccination progress. • Create a competitive challenge/provide reward for successful results among staff. |