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Accomplishments of the CAIC include:
- Development of the basic CAIC organizational structure and the creation of initiatives that address the challenges in improving adult immunization rates.
- Organization of 5 annual Adult Immunization Summits beginning in 2001.
- Research and publication of “The Unprotected: Characteristics of Older Adults Who Did Not Receive Their Annual Influenza Immunization,” which reveals disparities in immunization rates in California on the basis of region, racial and ethnic groups, and health care access using data collected by the California Health Interview Survey.
- Creation and maintenance of a website in 2004 for dissemination of information about CAIC activities and materials: www.immunizecaadults.org.
- A broad initiative to improve influenza immunization among health care workers was launched in 2004.
- Identification and promotion of activities in support of 2005 National Adult Immunization Awareness Week across California.
- The receipt in 2005 of a one-year grant from the Archstone Foundation which is designed to increase immunization rates for influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia and disseminate education, awareness and methods of control for outbreaks of influenza in long-term care facilities for the elderly in California.
- Supported the development of new legislation in California to authorize the use of standing orders for immunization against influenza and pneumonia among adults 50+ who receive care in long-term care facilities (AB 1711).
Other ongoing priorities include:
- Establish administrative and legislative approaches to policy initiatives that promote adult vaccination.
- Identify and implement strategies to improve influenza and pneumococcal immunization rates among health care workers and residents in California long term care facilities.
- Describe demographic and regional variations of adult influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates at the statewide and regional level of California, based on new data from the 2003 CHIS Survey.
- Obtain funding to support the infrastructure and specific activities of the CAIC for a minimum of three years.
The following organizations and programs are actively involved with CAIC:
- Blue Cross of California State Sponsored Programs (SSP)
- Blue Shield of California
- Brown & Toland Medical Group
- California Association of Health Facilities
- California Coalition for Childhood Immunization (C3I)
- California Department of Public Health
- Center for Gerontology
- Diabetes Control Program
- Immunization Branch
- Immunization Branch, Information and Education Section
- Infectious Diseases Branch
- Los Angeles
- Licensing and Certification
- California Distance Learning Health Network
- California Health Advocates
- California Hospital Association
- California Medical Association
- California Pharmacists Association
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Region IX)
- Childhood Immunization Registry Partnership
- City and County of San Francisco, Deparment of Public Health
- Communicable Disease Prevention Unit, San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP)
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- Contra Costa Immunization Coalition
- County of San Diego, Immunization Branch
- CVS Pharmacy
- Davis County Health Department
- Edward R. Roybal Institute for Applied Gerontology, Cal State LA, Roybal Immunization Consortium for Older Adults
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
- Immunization Coalition of Los Angeles County
- Immunize LA Kids/ LA Biomedical Institute at Harborview-UCLA Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente (Northern/Southern CA, Vaccine Study Center)
- Los Angeles County Immunization Coalition
- Lumetra
- Maxim Health Systems
- MedImmune, Inc.
- Merck Vaccine Division
- NAMM California
- Northeast Valley Health Corporation
- Novartis/Chiron Vaccine, Inc.
- Pharmacy Access Partnership
- Pharmacy Foundation of California
- San Diego County Immunizations (I3)
- San Francisco Immunization Coalition
- Sanofi Pasteur
- Sutter Health Institute for Research and Education
- Sutter VNA/Hospice
- Test-Med
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
- USC School of Pharmacy
- Wellness/Flu Fighters, LLC
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For more information about CAIC, please contact
Julia Heinzerling, MPH or (323) 757-7244, extension 228. |
