Influenza Toolkit - Welcome

Dear Partner in Prevention:

We are delighted to have you as a partner in the Campaign to Increase Influenza Vaccination Campaign Among Health Care Workers. This campaign is designed to be a collaborative effort between your agency, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and long-term care, assisted living, and residential care facilities across Maine.

The campaign provides a multifaceted initiative to assist Maine facilities in improving influenza vaccination coverage rates among their workers. This program features a toolkit to facilitate a successful facility-wide campaign.

In the Campaign to Increase Influenza Vaccination Campaign Among Health Care Workers, you will find the following:

• Resources and strategies for improving health care worker influenza vaccination coverage levels
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports
• Template Policy Statement: Policy for Influenza Immunization of Health Care Workers
• Template for standing orders for administering influenza vaccine to adults
• Template sample declination form
• Vaccine Information Statement for Inactivated Influenza Vaccine
• Vaccine Influenza Statement for Live, Intranasal Influenza Vaccine
• Vaccine Administration Record and Consent Form for Influenza Vaccine
• Joint Commission Press Release: Joint Commission Establishes Infection Control Standard to Address Influenza Vaccines for Staff
• Educational Posters and Campaign Materials

Please use this toolkit to enhance your facility’s effort to increase influenza vaccinations among health care workers.

We appreciate your commitment to raising influenza vaccination rates in health care workers and look forward to working with you. Please complete a short evaluation survey of the campaign. It will only take 5 minutes.

Should you require additional information about this initiative, please contact Lisa Bondeson at 1-800-821-5821 or lisa.bondeson@maine.gov.