By: Peter
After 7 years of having this policy in place, does Virginia Mason have statistics to show the effectiveness of vaccinating the staff? I am aware that many care providers suffer from sani-bacteritis or...
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Thanks for your comment, Peter. Gathering statistics to demonstrate fewer ill patients or staff is very difficult because this is not a controlled study. Because we don’t culture everyone with flu-like...
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Thank you, I agree it is very difficult to collect population wide data like this (especially with the challenges you identified) but I thought I would ask. Keep up the good work.
View ArticleBy: Joanne Lynn
I’d like to hear more about the physician compact implemented in 2002 or 2003. I started working at VMMC (in a non-medical position) in 2005, so though I greatly benefit from this decision, I don’t...
View ArticleBy: Hospital Workers, Flu Shots & Standardized Work — Lean Blog
[...] Virginia Mason Medical Center is a world leader in the application of Lean and Toyota practices in healthcare (see more posts about their work). Joyce Lammert, MD, the VM Chief of Medicine...
View ArticleBy: Mike Sprouse, Virginia Mason
Hi Joanne, thank you for your comment and sorry for not responding sooner! You may want to read a two-part blog entry we posted back in May/June in which Dr. Joyce Lammert discusses the process of...
View ArticleBy: Over to you: Wear a mask or a get a flu shot – should all care providers...
[...] Virginia Mason Medical Center describes as a “defining moment” its decision in 2005 to require all employees to get a flu shot; it was the first facility in the US to do so. The policy came about...
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