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Public Health And Prevention Vision Statement:
We are Leaders of Change Empowering Healthy Communities
The Public Health and Prevention Division works to promote and encourage healthy behaviors, prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, improve early child development, prevent injuries, respond to disasters that impact the medical and health delivery system and assist communities in recovery, and assure the quality and accessibility of health services throughout the county.
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For Health Care Providers
Public Health promotes optimal community health through disease and injury prevention, education, policy development, and more. Health Care Providers (HCP), such as doctors and nurses, are critical to this work.
The Inyo Public Health team strives to work closely with HCPs throughout the community to share guidelines and best practices, create care coordination, technical assistance, and more. Information is shared as needed on this page (see accordions below and click to expand).
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Welcome Health Care Providers to the Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidelines resource page. The Inyo County Health & Human Services - Public Health Division is working to promote and encourage the adoption of CDPH and CDC immunization storage and handling guidelines with our local healthcare providers.
You can find a comprehensive list of storage and handling resources at Storage & Handling Job Aids – California Vaccines for Children (VFC) (eziz.org).
We want to highlight these storage and handling topics/resources:
- The use of standardized temperature log (inclusive of Min and Max temperatures) is highly recommended. Cold temperatures can damage vaccines immediately. Warm temperatures can damage vaccines cumulatively over time. Both can impact vaccine viability. Monitoring storage unit temperatures consistently and accurately plays an important role in protecting the vaccines that protect your patients.
- How to Record Refrigerator and Freezer Temperatures: Fahrenheit | Celsius
- Refrigerator Temp Logs: Fahrenheit | Celsius
- Freezer Temp Logs: Fahrenheit | Celsius
- Supervisors must ensure that appropriate action has been taken for all out-of-range temperatures. Storage and Handling Online Triage System (SHOTS) is an online tool that triages each incident to determine whether vaccine manufacturers must intervene to determine vaccine viability.
- The use of CDC recommended vaccine storage and temperature equipment is required. This is the link to the CDC Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit with updated COVID-19 information addendum: Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit (cdc.gov)
- UPDATE: Dormitory-style storage units are no longer acceptable for vaccine storage at any time.
If you have any questions about storage and handling for your facilities, please reach out to:
Public Health Nurse – Immunizations/Communicable Diseases
Tim Whitney, PHN, RN
p: 760-873-7871 | e: twhitney@inyocounty.us
Inyo County Public Health would like to support HCPs to ensure that our local medical providers are up to date on guidance around the screening, care, and reporting of pregnant women/infants who test positive for Hepatitis B.
Please refresh your knowledge by reviewing the Hepatitis B Quicksheet, CMR reporting process, and CDPH Hepatitis B Webpage.
- This is a quick resource document that highlights recommendations/guidance for Hepatitis B:
Hepatitis B Quicksheet (ca.gov)
- The CMR form is for reporting and tracking positive HBV cases (and other reportable conditions):
CDPH 110a Form
!! REPORTABLE DISEASES !!
Must be reported to Inyo County HHS Public Health via:
Fax:760-873-7800 OR Phone Call: 760-873-7868
- You can find a comprehensive list of Hepatitis B resources at:
CDPH – IZZ – HepB
Thank you for your time and remember:
- rEPORT -
hepatitis B in pregnant mothers & newborns
If you have any questions about Hepatitis B guidance for your facilities, please reach out to:
Public Health Nurse – Immunizations/Communicable Diseases
Tim Whitney, PHN, RN
p: 760-873-7871 | e: twhitney@inyocounty.us
Assessment
- Assess and monitor population health status, factors that influence health, and community needs and assets
- Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the population
Policy Development
Communicate effectively to inform and educate people about health, factors that influence it, and how to improve it
Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health
Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health
Utilize legal and regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health
Assurance
- Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy
- Build and support a diverse and skilled public health workforce
- Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement
- Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
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