CEO DATELINE - Pharmacists association recognized for helping increase vaccinations
CEO DATELINE - Pharmacists association recognized for helping increase vaccinations
- October 8, 2015 |
- Walt Williams
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently praised the American Pharmacists Association for a program that trained pharmacists to deliver vaccinations, and in the process helped reduced the number of preventable diseases in the U.S.
APhA launched the Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program nearly 20 years ago to teach pharmacists the skills they need to provide immunization services. Since then, more than 260,000 pharmacists have participated in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
In a letter, CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat noted that the association's efforts have led to increasing access to vaccination services throughout the country.
"In addition, APhA has worked to strengthen pharmacists' commitment to immunizations through adoption of an APhA policy statement that all pharmacists should be up-to-date on their own vaccinations as a professional expectation," she said. "Indeed, pharmacists' influenza vaccination rates have reached 90 percent in recent years."
In fact, APhA noted that pharmacists' flu vaccination rates are greater than that of doctors or nurses.
The vaccines that pharmacists are allowed to administer vary from state to state, but APhA said that in addition to the flu vaccine, pharmacists have been authorized to provide vaccines for pneumonia, meningitis, Hepatitis B, HPV and other diseases. http://bit.ly/1VH4UMj
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