Table 4.

State health department quotes about contact with health-care providers.

“Constant contact. We have – in our Office of Immunization, we have a School and Adolescent Immunization Coordinator, and her role is the liaison between the schools and the immunization program. “

“And so, a lot of time the doctors’ offices will have us come in at lunchtime or an hour before clinic starts. We also have a relationship where we’ve gone to a community college with their medical assistants, so we really do kind of function as the people to ask for immunization expertise.”

“We actually have monthly calls with all of our local health department nurses, and always part of that is to talk about the waiver – or not every one of the, but it’s always that usually a topic item that comes up that we discuss. So yeah, we have scheduled monthly calls with all of our immunization nurses at the local health departments.”

“We then in our district offices, which are our local health offices, we have school liaisons that our public health nurses that go and meet with them regarding a range of public health issues and maybe providing some vaccine information. And then they have to complete the annual report. And so, they also have a person here that’s our lead on the school reporting where they can call with different questions … Oh, and when you’re a new school nurse, there’s an orientation you have to go through. I think it’s different modules online, and there’s a specific module on immunizations.”