WA-CHIP Working to Increase Vaccinations
Washington’s child health improvement partnership, WA-CHIP, which is led by WCAAP, is working on multiple fronts to improve child health. The First Year Families arm of the partnership focuses on […]
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Washington State DOH Well-Child Campaign
DOH is launching a media campaign to encourage families to resume well-child visits and check-ups.
Next Immunizations Learning Collaborative Cohort Launches April 27th – Join Now!
Tatiana Sarkhosh, MPH Program Manager, WCAAP Child and adolescent vaccines are down 20% month over month. We all collectively want to overcome these gaps and we also know how busy […]
Improve Your Clinic’s Vaccination Rates
WA-CHIP Immunizations Cohort #4 Kicks Off in March Ariana SalaizWCAAP Program Manager Our Washington Child Health Improvement Partnership (WA-CHIP) supports a Learning Collaborative to improve childhood and adolescent vaccination rates […]
Vaccinating Our Community: OBCC on the Move
Q&A with Shaquita Bell, MD, FAAPOdessa Brown Children’s Clinic When did you start doing mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics and what motivated you? We started doing mobile vaccine clinics last spring. […]
Handling hesitancy: How to help uncertain families decide about their kids’ COVID-19 vaccine
Brian L. Simmerman, MD, FAAP Providence Medical Park Pediatrics As expected, the FDA authorized COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 and the CDC added its recommendation, making kids in our […]
WA-CHIP’s Champions for Youth Steering Committee: Working Together to Promote Vaccinations, Improve Behavioral Health
Ariana Salaiz Program Manager, WCAAP WCAAP’s Champions for Youth Steering Committee, an integral component of our Child Health Improvement Partnership (WA-CHIP) has been a critical place for primary care providers, […]
Toolkit Available to Help You Promote Flu Vaccine
The Washington State Department of Health’s online toolkit to help providers promote flu vaccine is live: https://coronavirus.wa.gov/partner-toolkit/knock-out-flu. The short URLs you can share with families are www.knockoutflu.org (English) and www.combatelagripe.org […]
Drive Your HPV Vaccination Rates Higher for Powerful Cancer Prevention by Starting at Age 9
Sherri Zorn, MD, FAAP WCAAP Vaccine Committee Timely HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination of preteens can prevent an estimated 90% of HPV-related cancers (oropharyngeal, cervical, anal, penile, vaginal, vulvar). However, despite […]
KOMO: Low Vaccinations Among Young People with Delta
Read “Low COVID vaccination rate among young has raised fears about delta variant impact“