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April 2012 - AOHP added name to Friends of NIOSH letters to the House and Senate Labor HHS Appropriations Subcommittees in support of NIOSH funding in FY12
Latest TJC (Joint Commission) standard – Influenza Vaccination for Licensed Independent Practitioners and Staff Critical Access Hospital Accreditation Program. Click here to download a copy.
Acute care hospitals participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program will be required to submit summary data on influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel via the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) beginning on January 1, 2013 for the 2012-2013 influenza season. The NHSN module for reporting these data will be available on September 8, 2012. Corresponding training materials, protocol, forms and instructions will be available on the NHSN website on September 7, 2012. Healthcare facilities may begin reporting data for the 2012-2013 influenza season prior to January 1, 2013; however these data are not required by the CMS rule.
Hospitals will be asked to report vaccinations received by healthcare personnel at the facility, vaccinations received outside the facility, medical contraindications and declinations. Data must be reported for:
all employees on payroll;
licensed independent practitioners (who are physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician assistants affiliated with the hospital but not on payroll);
students, trainees, and volunteers aged 18 or older.
Acute care hospitals planning to report healthcare personnel influenza vaccination summary data should make sure:
their facility is enrolled in NHSN;
the Healthcare Personnel Safety Component is activated; and,
personnel who will be entering these data for the hospital (e.g. employee health staff) are given user rights to the component.
Within the Healthcare Personnel Safety Component, monthly reporting plans must be created or updated to include healthcare personnel influenza vaccination summary reporting, before data can be entered.
