Vision, Mission, Objectives

Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health by implementing an evidence-based quality improvement (QI) initiative to improve health outcomes for adults in need of immunizations. NACHC will work with primary care associations and health center-controlled networks and their member health centers.

The evidence-based quality improvement work will be in three areas:

1. Establishing baseline data
2. Implementing a QI Strategy to increase adult immunization rates
3. Identify gaps in the adult immunization process and contribute to an implementation toolkit for health centers to measure and improve immunization rates.

NACHC and contractor will apply Human Centered Design Framework tools and strategies to develop a rapid cycle intervention through peer learning, iterative data submission and QI strategies, data dictionary, and clinical/data/quality measure workflow improvements. Results will include improved adult immunization rates, actionable data that is aligned and harmonized for patients and their care teams. Health center teams and IT staff iteratively extract data that supports shared health care decisions for patients and providers and enables the closure of care gaps. These data inform a proactive adult immunization process facilitated by the health centers that is both provider- and patient-centric.

Quick links to Frequently Used Resources

1. *NEW 2021-10-29 Adult Immunizations Data Dictionary
2. *OLD 2020-12-09 Influenza Vaccine Data Dictionary and Extraction Template
3. File Naming Conventions
4. CDC Immunization Codesets
5. Y3 Adult Immunization All Partner #1 Call 12-9-20.pdf
6. HL7 Guide for Immunizations
   1. IIS Health Level 7 (HL7) Implementation
   2. Potential for using HL7 FHIR in the Immunization Community
   3. Immunization Decision Support Forecast (ImmDS) Implementation Guide
7. Application Programming Interface (API) for Immunization Information Interoperability
8. Adult Immunization All Partners Call March 10 2021 Slides
9.  IMPORTANT:  Final Report Template For Partners

Vaccine Volunteer Resources

Liability protections under FTCA Program for volunteer health professionals (VHPs)

Program Assistance Letter (PAL) 2020-03: Calendar Year 2021 Volunteer Health Professional Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Deeming Sponsorship Application Instructions(PDF – 184 KB). 

FTCA guidance related to temporary credentialing and privileging during a declared emergency?

PAL 2017-07: Temporary Privileging of Clinical Providers by Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Deemed Health Centers in Response to Certain Declared Emergency Situations for guidance(PDF – 288kb).

Health centers submission application for VHP deeming sponsorship application? (Note: only health centers can apply.  PCAs and Networks may not apply on behalf of CHCs, but could provide technical assistance)

Health centers can complete a VHP deeming sponsorship application by accessing the Electronic Handbooks (EHBs) and going to the FTCA application section. The EHBs allow sponsoring health centers to submit multiple VHPs in one application submission.

FTCA guidance related to temporary credentialing and privileging during a declared emergency?

PAL 2017-07: Temporary Privileging of Clinical Providers by Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Deemed Health Centers in Response to Certain Declared Emergency Situations for guidance(PDF – 288kb).

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