Illinois Administrative Code
Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH
Part 956 - HEALTH CARE EMPLOYEE VACCINATION CODE
Section 956.30 - Influenza Vaccination
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
Each health care setting shall ensure that all health care employees are provided education on influenza and are offered the opportunity to receive seasonal, novel and pandemic influenza vaccine, in accordance with this Section, during the influenza season (between September 1 and March 1 of each year), unless the vaccine is unavailable (see subsection (d)).
a) Each health care setting shall notify all health care employees of the influenza vaccination provisions of this Part and shall provide or arrange for vaccination of all health care employees who accept the offer of vaccination. Each health care setting shall provide all health care employees with education about the benefits of influenza vaccine and potential consequences of influenza illness. Information provided shall include the epidemiology, modes of transmission, diagnosis, treatment and non-vaccine infection control strategies.
b) Each health care setting shall develop and implement a program that includes the following:
c) Declination of Vaccine
d) Unavailability of Vaccine. A health care setting shall not be required to offer influenza vaccination when the vaccine is unavailable for purchase, shipment or administration by a third party, or when complying with an order of the Department that restricts the use of the vaccine. A health care setting shall offer to provide or arrange for influenza vaccination for health care employees as soon as the vaccine becomes available.
e) Documentation
f) Health care settings may choose to develop and implement more stringent influenza vaccination policies, strategies or programs designed to improve health care employee vaccination rates than those required by this Part and that are consistent with existing law and regulation.