Improving Compliance Rates with Health Assessment and Vaccine Documentation to Decrease School Absences: A Community Collaborative

Anna Miller-Fitzwater; Caren Jenkins; Heather Rothrock; Nancy Sutton; Sara Harmon; Stephanie Daniel

doi:10.18043/ncm.78.5.347

Improving Compliance Rates with Health Assessment and Vaccine Documentation to Decrease School Absences: A Community Collaborative

N C Med J. 2017 Sep-Oct;78(5):347-351. doi: 10.18043/ncm.78.5.347.

Authors

Anna Miller-Fitzwater¹, Caren Jenkins², Heather Rothrock³, Nancy Sutton⁴, Sara Harmon⁴, Stephanie Daniel⁵

Affiliations

¹ deputy medical director, Northwest Community Care Network; assistant professor, Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina amillerf@wakehealth.edu.
² school health supervisor, Forsyth County Department of Public Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
³ director, Quality and Informatics, Northwest Community Care Network, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
⁴ program specialist, Health and Physical Education, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
⁵ executive director, School Health Alliance; professor, Family Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

PMID: 28963276
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.78.5.347

Abstract

Students entering North Carolina public schools must have documentation of a health assessment and immunizations by the 30th day of class, or they are excluded from attending school until they submit documentation. A community collaborative was essential in decreasing the number of students excluded from school for noncompliant documentation in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County school district.

MeSH terms

Absenteeism*
Child
Cohort Studies
Documentation / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Immunization / statistics & numerical data*
North Carolina / epidemiology
Patient Compliance / statistics & numerical data*
School Health Services / statistics & numerical data*
Schools
Students / statistics & numerical data*