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School Immunization Requirements Department of Health Office of Immunization and Child Profile May 20, 2015

Importance of immunizations Immunization Information System What are some of the common rules and exceptions to the vaccine requirements What is the change to the varicella requirement for school What are the changes to the Certificate of Immunization Status and the Certificate of Exemption Washington State Department of Health Topics to be covered

Washington State Department of Health Outbreaks

Students attending school and child care/preschool must comply with immunization requirements to protect against diseases. Children must be vaccinated against certain vaccine- preventable diseases at ages and intervals according to the national immunization schedule. Parent must submit completed Certificate of Immunization Status (or Certificate of Exemption).Certificate of Immunization Status Certificate of Exemption Washington State Department of Health What are the immunization laws?

Washington State Department of Health Recommended vs required Recommended Hepatitis B DTaP Tdap IPV MMR Varicella PCV Hib Hepatitis A HPV Meningococcal Flu Rotavirus Required Hepatitis B DTaP Tdap IPV MMR Varicella PCV (for child care) Hib (for child care)

Responsibilities of schools: Check each student to determine if fully immunized, conditional, out of compliance, or exempt. Follow-up with students not fully immunized. Maintain a CIS or COE. Keep list of students not fully immunized, exempt, or in conditional status in case of an outbreak. Immunization Requirements

WA Immunization Information System

Public and private schools are eligible to use the system if they: – Serve any grades between K and 12 – Have a school nurse on staff or under contract to track and report immunizations The school nurse may be a volunteer An information sharing agreement needs to be in place Immunization Information System Requirements

Printing the CIS Printing instructions: PrintingInstructions.pdfwww.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/ CIS- PrintingInstructions.pdf

Printing the CIS

IIS Forecasting Tool

Vaccine Requirements

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 5 doses required for K-12 th grade Exception: 4 doses required if 4 th dose given >4 th birthday Washington State Department of Health Immunization Requirements - DTaP

 1 dose required for 6-12 th grade IF student is 11 years of age or older Washington State Department of Health Immunization Requirements - Tdap Exception: Tdap given between 7-10 years of age counts for the 6 th grade requirement

 DTaP: 6 years of age and younger  Tdap and Td: 7 years of age and older  Tdap is recommended once, then switch to Td every 10 years Washington State Department of Health Immunization Requirements – DTaP/TdaP/Td

Exception: Students years of age can get 2 doses of adult Recombivax hep B vaccine  3 doses required for K-12 th grade  K-8 th grade: Dose 3 must be given min age of 24 weeks  9 th -12 th grade: Dose 3 must be given min age of 4 months Immunization Requirements – Hepatitis B

 4 doses required for K-12 th grade Exception: 3 doses required if 3 rd dose given >4 th birthday Washington State Department of Health Immunization Requirements - IPV

 2 doses required for K-12 th grade  Dose 1 and dose 2 must be separated by 4 weeks Exception: 3 doses required if 4 th dose given >4 th birthday Washington State Department of Health Immunization Requirements - MMR Please remember: Dose 1 must be given at least 1 year of age

 2 doses required for K-8 th grade for upcoming school year  At least 4 weeks must separates doses Exception: 3 doses required if 4 th dose given >4 th birthday Washington State Department of Health Immunization Requirements - Varicella Please remember: Dose 1 must be given at least 1 year of age

Vaccines given 4 days or less before the minimum interval or age are valid Example: MMR vaccine given 3 days before 12 months of age is valid 4 Day Grace Period Washington State Department of Health

 We will host a webinar in the fall about the required immunization report  Just a few reminders:  Report in the WA IIIS: (Please don’t or mail a hard copy report form)  We will send an to staff who have an account in Sept. will include username and password  New staff will need to set up an account: please send an to if you have any staffing  More information available here: hools/Immunization/SchoolStatusReporting xception: 3 hools/Immunization/SchoolStatusReporting Washington State Department of Health Immunization Report

Change in Varicella Requirement for School Year

Immunization Requirements - Varicella Option 1 Blood test showing titer for immunity Option 2 Documentation in IIS or CIS printout Option 3 Letter from provider (out of state valid) Option 4 Provider documents on CIS hard copy 2 doses of varicella vaccine required for K-8 th grade

2 doses of varicella vaccine required for K-12 th grade Varicella Requirement By school year Washington State Department of Health

Varicella Flyer

Changes to the Certificate of Immunization Status

Washington State Department of Health

New Certificate of Exemption

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Washington State Department of Health 2015 Side A

2015 Side B

 Main school and child care web page:  Vaccines Required for School Attendance chart: /VaccineRequirements.aspx /VaccineRequirements.aspx  Vaccines Required for Child Care/Preschool Attendance chart: /VaccineRequirements.aspx /VaccineRequirements.aspx  Immunization web page: Resources Washington State Department of Health

 For clinical questions about compliance, send an to DOH nurses at  For school requirement questions, send an to Resources Washington State Department of Health

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