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medical home; <br />3. Establish collaborations with a variety of community-based organizations and <br />human service agencies (internal and external to your Local Health <br />Department [LHD]) to promote best practices, specific activities, and special <br />projects to increase vaccination coverage levels for children 0 through 35 <br />months; <br />4. Ensure that expired, wasted, and unaccounted for vaccines do not exceed 5% <br />for DTaP, Hib, hepatitis B, IPV, MMR, PCV7, varicella, hepatitis A, and <br />combination vaccines in LHD clinics; <br />5. Effectively utilize ImmTrac in LHD clinics; <br />6. Increase the number of registered provider sites actively reporting <br />immunizations to ImmTrac; <br />7. Promote the effective use of ImmTrac by private providers; <br />8. Increase the number of children less than six (6) years of age who participate <br />in ImmTrac; <br />9. Ensure that ImmTrac data are complete, current, and accurate; <br />10. Increase TVFC provider enrollment; <br />11. Actively educate public and private providers on vaccine recommendations, <br />the Standards for Child and Adolescent Immunization Practices and the <br />Standards for Adult Immunization Practices, reporting of vaccine-preventable <br />diseases, recordkeeping, the use of Vaccine Information Statements (VIS), the <br />TVFC program, and the ImmTrac registry; <br />12. Complete 100% of quality assurance ..follow-up visits assigned by DSHS <br />Austin or Health Service Region Staff; <br />13. Provide immunization services and ACIP-recommended vaccines as described <br />in this contract; <br />14. Promote adult immunization among adults in the general population and <br />among health care workers; <br />15. Conduct educational, promotional, and outreach activities for the general <br />public to enhance immunization awareness; <br />16. Investigate and document at least 90% of reportable suspected vaccine- <br />preventable disease cases within thirty (30) days of notification in accordance <br />with DSHS'sVaccine-Preventable Disease (VPD) Surveillance Guidelines; <br />17. Implement a comprehensive Perinatal Hepatitis B program that accomplishes <br />the following: <br />a. Increase by at least 5% the number of hepatitis B surface antigen- <br />positive (HBsAg+) pregnant women identified; <br />b. Increase by at least 5% the number of infants born to HBsAg+ <br />pregnant women that are identified; <br />c. Increase by at least 5% the number of these infants that receive one (1) <br />dose of hepatitis B vaccine and HBIG within twelve (12) hours of birth <br />and no later than seven (7) days after birth; <br />d. Increase by at least 5% the number of these infants that complete the <br />hepatitis B vaccine series and receive post-vaccination serologic <br />testing; and, <br />e. Increase by at least 5% the number of susceptible household and <br />ATTACHMENT -Page 5 <br />