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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018 Communicable DiseaseJefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measures 2018 Community Health – Communicable Disease Program [1] PROGRAMS:, Communicable Disease (CD), Tuberculosis, Immunizations, Travelers Immunizations, Sexually Transmitted Disease, HIV, Syringe Exchange Program, Public Health Emergency Preparedness MISSION: The purpose of the Communicable Disease Health program is to protect Jefferson County residents from serious communicable diseases by providing disease surveillance, investigation and reporting, along with education, screening, treatment, and immunization services. The program interacts with community members, medical providers, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH), Region 2 Emergency Management partners, and other agencies while working toward this purpose. Goals Objectives Performance Indicators 2013 Actual 2014 Actual 2015 Actual 2016 Actual 2017 Projected 2018 Planned Goal 1: Timely investigation of notifiable conditions. Investigate reports of notifiable conditions per DOH disease specific guidelines. Develop & update protocols and forms as needed. Use DOH electronic reporting systems PHRED, PHIMS, and PHIMS-STD, to receive reports and send completed reports to DOH. Total number of communicable disease reports confirmed, interventions applied, and processed for reporting to the State 143 180 (21 gonorrhea) 201 (42 pertussis) 178 170 170 Total number of STD cases reported to the State 83 103 69 73 70 70 Number of chlamydia cases reported to the State: female, male, total Fe: 68 M: 13 T: 81 Fe: 59 M: 18 T: 77 Fe: 42 M: 15 T: 57 Fe: 41 M: 15 T: 56 60 60 Number of gonorrhea cases reported to the State: female, male, total Fe: 2 M: 1 T: 3 Fe: 13 M: 8 T: 21 Fe: 5 M: 4 T: 9 Fe: 4 M: 7 T: 11 9 9 Goal 2: Inform medical providers about current CD trends, outbreaks, and new CD control recommendations. Provide updates, outreach, and training to providers about local, state, and national CD outbreaks and disease control recommendations. Provide reminders about reporting notifiable conditions and using the after-hours reporting number. Number of alerts/updates/newsletters faxed, emailed, or mailed to providers (not including DOH Influenza Updates) 15 23 8 17 15 15 Goal 3: Maintain the low rate of active Tuberculosis (TB) in Jefferson County Encourage appropriate screening and treatment for latent TB infection and active TB disease. Number of clients tested for TB infection with PPD or QFT test; Number of positive tests 165 3 149 2 148 2 180 1 170 1 170 1 Number of clients started on preventive treatment for latent TB infection. 1 2 1 0 0 0 Number of cases of active TB reported 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measures 2018 Community Health – Communicable Disease Program [2] Goals Objectives Performance Indicators 2013 Actual 2014 Actual 2015 Actual 2016 Actual 2017 Projected 2018 Planned Goal 4: Work with local clinics and DOH to support universal access to vaccines for all children through the federal and state funded Vaccines for Children Program (VFC). Maintain an efficient system for supplying vaccine, recommendations, and VFC program up-dates to VFC provider clinics in Jefferson County. Monitor VFC vaccine usage in Jefferson County. Total number of doses of publicly funded vaccine (pediatric), administered by private health care providers and JCPH clinics, supplied and monitored through JCPH immunization program 5,067 4613 4724 4627* 4700 4700 Number & percent of doses of publicly funded vaccine (pediatric) administered by private health care providers 4,545 89.7% 3967 86% 4222 89.4% 4198* 90.7% 4210 90% 4210 90% Number & percent of doses of publicly funded vaccine (pediatric) administered by JCPH 522 10.3% 646 14% 502 10.6% 429 9.3% 490 10% 490 10% *Issues with the reporting function of the WA State Immunization Information System (IIS) have caused errors in the monthly Doses Administered reports, therefore the number for this report, for the Jefferson Healthcare clinics, is taken from the IIS Doses Ordered report. Goal 5: Assure quality of immunization services in clinics providing VFC vaccines, as required by DOH.** Perform vaccine quality assurance visits for 50% of clinics annually. Assess childhood immunization rate for pediatric patients in 25% of clinics annually. Number of clinics visited for VFC Program Quality Assessment and/or to assess childhood immunization rates in clinic patients. 2 2 +1 visit by DOH Total = 3 clinics 2 +1 visit by DOH Total = 3 clinics 1* +1 visit by DOH Total = 2 clinics 1 +1 visit by DOH Total = 2 clinics 1 +1 visit by DOH Total = 2 clinics *Total number of clinics decreased to four in 2015 when two Jefferson Healthcare Clinics merged into one clinic, reducing required number of clinic assessments per year. **DOH will be piloting the Diamond Project in the first half of 2018, our program activities may change in the fall of 2018. See discussion on page 5. Goal 6: Promote more extensive use of all Washington State Immunization Information System (WAIIS) functions by the provider clinics.** Continue to provide training and support to provider clinics for use of all WAIIS vaccine related functions to accurately and efficiently track vaccine supply, administration, and client records. Train on new modules as they become available. Number of clinics using WAIIS to order vaccine, track monthly vaccine inventory, track monthly vaccine doses administered 2 (40%) 4 (80%) 5 (100%) 4 (100%) 4 (100%) 4 (100%) Number of clinics trained to use WAIIS vaccine return module 0 0 Clinics trained but module not functioning correctly. 4 (100%). 4 (100%) 4 (100%) **DOH will be piloting the Diamond Project in the first half of 2018, our program activities may change in the fall of 2018. See discussion on page 5. Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measures 2018 Community Health – Communicable Disease Program [3] Goals Objectives Performance Indicators 2013 Actual 2014 Actual 2015 Actual 2016 Actual 2017 Projected 2018 Planned Goal 7: Maintain access to vaccines for international travel, in part to prevent travel associated outbreaks in Jefferson County. Provide travel immunization clinic (includes all disease prevention recommendations, including for malaria and other diseases). Number of clients immunized in travel immunization clinic Adults: 162 Adults: 140 Adults: 152 Adults: 174 Adults: 160 Adults: 160 0 – 18 yr: 23 0 – 18 yr: 31 0 – 18 yr: 55 0 – 18 yr: 36 0 – 18 yr: 40 0 – 18 yr: 40 Total: 185 Total: 171 Total: 207 Total: 210 Total: 200 Total: 200 Number of private supply vaccine doses (routine and travel) administered by JCPH (primarily for adults) 819 600 781 701 700 700 Goal 8: Assess childhood immunization rates for Jefferson County children. Assess Jefferson Co. childhood immunization rate trends, for children seeing Jefferson County providers, using immunizations recorded in WAIIS. Some children are not in the IIS registry, and some providers in Washington state don’t participate in the registry. The CDC NIS survey is more complete. Completeness of full immunization series for children seeing Jefferson County providers, at age 19-35 months: 4 DTaP, 3 Polio, 1 MMR, 3 HIB, 3 Hep-B, 1 Var, 4 PCV. Jeff Co: 53% (IIS) WA: 71% (NIS) Jeff Co: 55% (IIS) WA: 67% (NIS) 56% (IIS) Jeff Co: 58% (IIS) WA: 77% (NIS) 58% (IIS) Jeff Co: 63% (IIS) WA: (NIS NA) 59% (IIS) Jeff Co: 66% Jeff Co: 69% (IIS) Percent of children seeing Jefferson County providers having 1 dose of MMR by age 19-35 months (IIS data) Jeff Co: 75% Jeff Co: 78% WA: 79% Jeff Co: 80% WA: 82% Jeff Co: 83% WA: 81% Jeff Co: 86% Jeff Co: 89% Percent of children seeing Jefferson County providers having 4 doses of DTaP by age 19-35 months (IIS data) Jeff Co: 69% Jeff Co: 66% WA: 68% Jeff Co: 73% WA: 69% Jeff Co: 76% Jeff Co: 79% Goal 9: Assist schools to increase student compliance with Washington State immunization requirements. Provide training and assistance for school secretaries to access WAIIS records for students. Provide schools with immunization information for parents. Link schools to updated State information on submitting annual immunization report. Percent of Jefferson County kindergarten students out-of-compliance for required immunizations as reported to DOH in school immunization report each fall. *Some schools did not report in 2012 and 2013. * Jeff Co: 11.2% WA: 10.3% Jeff Co: 21.9% WA: 10.9% Jeff Co: 30.5% WA: 8.6% Jeff Co: 11.1% WA: 8.2% Jeff Co: 9% Jeff Co: 8% Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measures 2018 Community Health – Communicable Disease Program [4] Goals Objectives Performance Indicators 2013 Actual 2014 Actual 2015 Actual 2016 Actual 2017 Projected 2018 Planned Goal 10: The Family Planning and STD clinics will assist in controlling Chlamydia transmission in Jefferson County. Women seen in Family Planning clinic who are at higher risk for Chlamydia (age 24 and under, CDC) will be screened for Chlamydia annually. Number of female FP clinic clients age 24 and under screened for Chlamydia 368 320 311 290 320 290 Percent of female FP clinic clients age 24 and under screened for Chlamydia 60.4% 63.4% 60.3% 74.2% 74% 74% Number of chlamydia cases reported to the State, female, male, total Fe: 68 M: 13 T: 81 Fe: 59 M: 18 T: 77 Fe: 42 M: 15 T: 57 Fe: 41 M: 15 T: 56 60 60 Goal 11: Maintain access to HIV testing in the community. Clients at high risk for HIV, without medical insurance, will be tested through the State Public Health Lab, others requesting testing will be tested through the Quest Lab and charged for testing. Number of persons counseled and tested for HIV infection DOH Lab: 19 Quest: 75 Total: 94 DOH Lab: 5 Quest: 135 Total: 140 DOH Lab: 13 Quest: 112 Total: 125 DOH Lab: 4 Quest: 148 Total: 152 140 140 Goal 12: Prevent the spread of blood borne communicable diseases among injecting drug users and their partners. Promote utilization of syringe exchange program (SEP) services. Number of visits to SEP 185 350 238 242 300 300 Number of syringes exchanged 24,596 42,809 35,328 47,790 82,000 82,000 Goal 13: Prevent fatal opioid overdoses in Jefferson County. Provide overdose prevention education to SEP clients. Provide naloxone, for opioid users, families and friends. Number of naloxone kits dispensed, included training for proper use. New program in 2016. NA NA NA 45 130 130 Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measures 2018 Community Health – Communicable Disease Program [5] Goal 14: Annual report to BOH for CD Programs. Complete Annual Report Pass/Fail PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Goal 15: Maintain and enhance Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR) capacity. Update regional PHEPR Plan, coordinating with Region II partners Clallam and Kitsap Health Departments, local emergency response agencies, Jefferson Healthcare, local health care providers and agencies. Update Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS SUMMARY OF KEY FUNDING/SERVICE ISSUES: Communicable Disease/Immunizations JCPH CD/Immunization programs address locally identified and defined public health problems. Communicable disease prevention is primarily a locally funded program, county milage was returned from the state to counties for TB control. Immunization funds from the state are primarily in the form of vaccine, this vaccine is provided to primary care clinics that care for children. County funding provides professional staff that prevent, identify and respond to disease outbreaks; and immunization staff that work with the hospital, health care providers, the schools, and local groups sponsoring trips abroad for students. Immunization staff provide routine immunization clinics and international travelers clinics. Staff respond to public requests for information about communicable diseases and screen for reportable illnesses in the process. The CD team continues to work on strengthening the notifiable conditions reporting system through outreach to the Jefferson Healthcare lab, ER, Infection Control Committee, and local providers. The number of communicable diseases reported each year is difficult to predict. The CD/Immunization team must be prepared to respond to outbreaks, by working with providers, following up with cases, making sure contacts are identified, educated and treated as appropriate, and getting information to providers, schools and the public. State/Federal funding for the Immunization Program Vaccine Accountability Contract was reduced by $743 for 2017. JCPH received $4,006 for 2017 to complete the eight provider clinic monitoring deliverables for this contract. The DOH Immunization Program will be piloting the Diamond Project in the first half of 2018, in one region, using a regional/State service delivery model for these immunization program tasks. This model may be phased in statewide in the second half of 2018. As of 8/17/2017, JCPH hasn’t received any information from DOH on funding or contract deliverables for 2018. Immunizations have been identified as a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) priority. JCPH immunization staff will continue to monitor VFC vaccine usage trends, and immunization rates, in Jefferson County. This data is being affected by increasing issues within some modules of the WAIIS registry. As a result, reports of the annual number of doses administered by private clinics may be inaccurate. DOH plans to have additional server capacity and WAIIS upgrades by the end of 2017, which should improve the data reports. The electronic medical records program, is being assessed for all the types of data reports available. Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measures 2018 Community Health – Communicable Disease Program [6] JCPH immunization staff will continue to co-chair and participate in the CHIP Immunization Workgroup, focusing on improving immunization rates for children and adults in Jefferson County. CHIP activities and detailed outcome indicators are outlined in the CHIP plan. The Immunization team will continue to update school secretaries’ training for using WAIIS to get immunization records for students who don’t have a complete Certificate of Immunization Status on file. The number of students who are “out-of-compliance”, due to incomplete immunizations or having no immunization record provided to the school, decreased in Jefferson County in 2016. This is one of the CHIP indicators and JCPH will continue to support the schools in their work on this issue. STD The Family Planning and STD clinic follows the CDC's STD testing recommendations. The Family Planning and CD program staff will continue to monitor and explore ways to assure appropriate testing of high risk groups. The electronic medical records program is also being assessed for FP/STD data reports. HIV Prevention HIV/AIDS case management was regionalized in January 2017 and Kitsap Public Health District became the regional provider of HIV case management services for Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson counties. A Kitsap staff member, based at Clallam County Health Department, provides services for Clallam and Jefferson counties. Previously, this staff member was employed by Clallam County Health Department and provided services for Clallam and Jefferson counties. CDC funding currently focuses on prevention programs for high risk populations, based on HIV prevalence. Jefferson County is classified as a low prevalence county, so has not had HIV prevention funding since 2012. The State Public Health Lab continues to do a limited number of free HIV tests for uninsured high risk clients, but there is no funding for JCPH staff time for counseling and testing services. JCPH staff will continue to provide free HIV testing services for low income high risk clients with no medical coverage. As more clients now have Apple Health, more testing is being done through Quest lab. The 2016 annual number of client visits, and syringes exchanged, in the SEP program was higher than in any previous year. The 2017 totals are projected to be higher yet, as 41,080 syringes were exchanged, through 154 client visits in the first 6 months. DOH has provided SEP supplies to supplement our program, however, there is no State funding for staff time. Both the increase number of client visits, and naloxone distribution and training, for opioid overdose prevention, have increased staff time required for this program. Continued funding for naloxone through the Center for Opioid Safety Education at the UW and DOH is uncertain. If this supply of naloxone does not continue, JCPH will have to explore options for purchasing naloxone. Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR) Federal funding includes developing response capacity for all hazards emergency response. Response capacity is developed in coordination with Region 2 PHEPR partners Kitsap and Clallam Counties, local emergency response agencies, Jefferson Healthcare, and other health care providers. Public Health staff have been trained in and use National Incident Management System protocols during communicable disease outbreaks. The roles, responsibilities and training have been helpful for managing communicable disease outbreaks. Decreased funding for any program may result in scaling back on services. The Board of Health would be involved in deciding which services would be impacted. 8/18/2017