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The JCAHO explores mandatory flu shots

Executive Briefings Digest, February 28, 2006

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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is in the midst of a field review to weigh the possibility of requiring mandatory influenza (flu) vaccinations for healthcare workers. The proposal would fall under the infection control (IC) standards.

Two committees under the Centers for Disease Control, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, will jointly issue immunization recommendations. JCAHO members have contacted committee leadership and are confident that the immunization recommendations will be similar.

The JCAHO's IC standards do not specifically require organizations to offer influenza vaccinations to staff, students, volunteers, and licensed independent practitioners. However, standard IC.4.10 requires organizations to refer staff, students/trainees, volunteers, and licensed independent practitioners who

• potentially have an infectious disease or risk of infectious disease that can put the population they serve at risk
• have been occupationally exposed to infectious agents

Source: Briefings on Infection Control

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