Mandatory employee vaccination as a strategy for early and comprehensive health care personnel immunization coverage: Experience from 10 influenza seasons.

Background: Influenza is responsible for thousands of deaths in the United States and presents particular challenges in health care facilities with a greater prevalence of people at increased risk for adverse outcomes. Annual influenza vaccination has long been recommended, and employer policies influence the likelihood health care personnel are immunized.

Methods: This is a review of vaccination data maintained by a large health care organization to assess the effects of a mandatory health care personnel vaccination policy implemented during 2008-2009.

Mandatory influenza vaccination of health care workers: translating policy to practice.

Background: Influenza vaccination of health care workers has been recommended since 1984. Multiple strategies to enhance vaccination rates have been suggested, but national rates have remained low.

Methods: BJC HealthCare is a large Midwestern health care organization with approximately 26,000 employees.

Influenza vaccination among healthcare workers: ten-year experience of a large healthcare organization.

Objective: To describe the results of different measures implemented to improve adherence to the healthcare worker (HCW) influenza immunization program at BJC HealthCare during the period from 1997 through 2007.

Design: Descriptive retrospective study.

Setting: BJC HealthCare, a 13-hospital nonprofit healthcare organization in the Midwest.