Moran Eye Center Employees Reach 100% Goal for Flu Shots

Salt Lake City, Utah
February 26, 2009

At the Moran Eye Center, we strive to provide the best possible patient care by ensuring that our staff is infection free.

We are happy to announce that we achieved our goal of 100% compliance for employee flu shots. We set a goal of having all our employees who contact patients participate in the program. Of the 308 employees, 132 were Hospital specific employees, and 176 were School of Medicine employees. Moran operating room nurse supervisor Laurel Kay said this about the flu shot project, "It makes a major difference in preventing the spread of infection if our caretakers are well.

We had great compliance in having influenza immunizations this year with our nursing and technician staff, our office personnel and our researchers. We also expect a reduction in sick days due to the great compliance we have had." We also provided as many of our patients as possible with their immunizations, and discussed and offered the injection to each patient as they came in for surgery. More than 200 of our patients participated in this program.

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