Web site spotlight: Hospitals make employee flu vaccinations a patient safety issue
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, March 19, 2010
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The emergence of the H1N1 flu put a spotlight in early 2009 on a question: Should healthcare organizations do more in terms of policies and approaches to increase flu vaccinations among hospital personnel?
In one presentation this week at the 5th Decennial International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections 2010 in Atlanta, the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) discussed worker immunizations. In 2009, the H1N1 pandemic "reminded us that inadequate healthcare worker vaccination is an often overlooked patient safety issue," said Jonathan Perlin, MD, HCA's president of clinical services and chief medical officer. Perlin spoke about his findings in a teleconference prior to the meeting.
"Influenza remains the number one cause of vaccine-preventable death in the United States. But sadly, only 29% of U.S. healthcare workers receive the influenza vaccine," Perlin said.
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