COVID-19: Increasing Vaccination in Primary Care Settings
Health care providers have played a key vaccination role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As demand decreases and the ability to reach individuals changes, health care providers should evaluate how they are currently administering vaccine and take steps now to provide more vaccinations in primary care settings. Primary care settings, including pediatric settings, are spaces of trust. By integrating COVID-19 vaccination into primary care settings, it both normalizes the vaccine and creates a personal space where patients can openly discuss concerns with their most trusted source of health care information. This strategy is critical to bringing vaccine to where people are in spaces they know and not letting a single opportunity to vaccinate pass.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has created a guidance document, COVID-19: Increasing Vaccination in Primary Care Settings, P-03006, to help providers think through bringing vaccine to primary care settings, including information about becoming an approved vaccinator (or getting the proper documentation if an entity is already connected to an approved vaccinator), vaccine ordering, vaccine wastage considerations, and strong recommendations.
We ask that you share this document with your members and network, and encourage providers to consider how they too can bring vaccine into more primary care settings. Please reach out with any questions or concerns, we are here to help!
Thank you for your continued partnership getting Wisconsinites vaccinated.
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