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Public Reporting of Employee and Non-Employee Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination/Informed Declination Rates Influenza Subcommittee HAI Advisory Committee July 7, 2010 Members Raymond Chinn, MD (Chair) Lilly Guardia-LaBar, RN, CIC Julie Marleau Tricia McLendon, MPH (CDPH) Carole Moss Frank Myers, MA, CIC Terry Nelson, MBA, RN, CIC Rebecca Siiteri, RN, MPH (CDPH) Dawn Terashita, MD, MPH Francesca Torriani, MD Kavita Trivedi, MD (CDPH) California Health and Safety Code, Section 1250 Requires that all licensed general acute care hospitals (GACH) must: Offer annual onsite influenza vaccinations, upon availability, to all employees at no cost to the employee; Require its employees to be vaccinated to obtain a written declaration that the employee declined vaccination; and Annually report to CDPH infection prevention process measures as recommended by the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, including but not limited to influenza vaccination measures of healthcare personnel? Challenges Accuracy of submitted data Various interpretations of what constitutes an employee Inclusion or exclusion of employees vaccinated elsewhere Broad definition of non-employee healthcare personnel (HCP): left up to the institution to decide Difficulty in capturing information on HCPs For 2008-09 and 2009-10 Seasons Post disclaimer that data collected had significant limitations making comparisons difficult to interpret Attach report describing limitations in depth Non-Reporting Hospitals for the 2008-2009 Influenza Season Epidemiology Unit has/ will contact ~ 100 hospitals to verify non-reporting status Request to re-submit data for those hospitals that stated that data was submitted ? Re-analysis of aggregate data Reporting Influenza for the 2008-2009 Post aggregate CA data, w/ list of reporting facilities and non-reporting facilities after CDPH contacts non-reporting fa