This document, prepared by Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), outlines the roles and responsibilities of a vaccine coordinator. A Vaccine Coordinator is responsible for connecting nursing homes and community partners with vaccine providers to schedule on-site vaccine clinics to increase the uptake of key vaccines for Medicare beneficiaries.
This tool, created by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health in collaboration with nursing homes and pharmacy partners, includes a checklist for planning on-site vaccination clinics in nursing homes.
This planning checklist also:
This document, created by Comagine Health, was developed for long-term care facilities to highlight the importance of creating a conducive learning environment that can support successful learning and application through:
A medium-sized nursing facility in Missouri was referred by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to Health Quality Innovators (HQI), a CMS Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 vaccination rate. The facility serves individuals with psychological behavior issues and many of the residents have public administrators assigned to them as guardians. Due to COVID-19 misinformation, a number of guardians refused vaccines for the residents whose care they managed.
