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1 Menu of State Hospital Influenza Vaccination Laws 1 (2017)

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Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Menu of State Hospital Influenza


Vaccination Laws


This menu is one of a series of menus assessing vaccination requirements for patients and healthcare
workers in healthcare facilities. Healthcare facilities across the country are increasingly requiring healthcare
workers to be vaccinated for certain vaccine-preventable diseases to reduce disease outbreaks.' In some
instances, facilities are establishing these requirements under mandates set forth by state statutes or
regulations. Depending on the vaccination, the legal requirements might apply to either patients,
healthcare workers, or both, and can include the following types of provisions:

    *  Assessment  Requirements
       Requiring a healthcare facility to assess a healthcare worker or patient's immunization status2
    *  Administrative Requirements for Offering Vaccination
       Requiring a healthcare facility to offer a vaccination to a healthcare worker or patient'
    *  Administrative Requirements for Ensuring Vaccination
       Requiring a healthcare facility to ensure that a healthcare worker or patient has been vaccinated
       unless vaccination is specifically exempted or declined'
    *  Surgical Mask Requirements
       Requiring a healthcare worker to wear a surgical mask during influenza (flu) season if he or she has
       been exempted  from or declined influenza vaccinations

Healthcare-associated infections, which can include flu,' are infections that occur during the course of
healthcare delivery.' In hospitals and other healthcare settings, flu can be spread by healthcare workers
passing germs from hands or clothes to other workers or to patients.8

Eighteen states establish flu vaccination requirements for hospital healthcare workers, and 16 states
establish requirements for hospital patients. This menu assesses and gives examples of state laws that
expressly establish flu vaccination requirements for hospital healthcare workers and patients.9



      CDC  recommends   that adults receive the flu vaccine annually. To learn more, visit
      CDC's Vaccine Information for Adults webpage  for information about this and other
      recommended vaccines.

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