Developing a Community-Oriented and Place-Based Strategy to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Accessibility.

Objective To address the challenges of inequitable access to the COVID-19 vaccines, Kaiser Permanente Southern California developed a community-oriented and geographic vaccine strategy combining clinical data, community data, and predictive models to identify ZIP codes requiring increased resources to achieve equitable vaccine receipt. Study Design This is a quality-improvement implementation study. Methods The authors developed hot-spot maps for southern California service areas to assist clinicians in identifying specific ZIP codes to increase vaccination efforts.