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Settings Where High-Risk Persons and Their Contacts May Be Targeted For Vaccination
Persons for whom influenza vaccine is recommended, including health-care workers and household members of high-risk persons, can be identified and vaccinated in many different settings that provide care to persons in high-risk groups:
- Outpatient facilities providing ongoing care
- Outpatient facilities providing episodic or acute care
- Nursing homes and other residential long-term care facilities
- Acute-care hospitals
- Visiting nurses and others providing home care to persons at high risk
- Other facilities providing services to persons aged 50 years or older
- Other settings outside of medical care settings such as the workplace and shopping areas, have been used to offer influenza vaccine
- Page last updated December 17, 2003
- Content Source: Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID)
- National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)