Mandatory policy boosts flu vaccination rates among health care workers

Monday, September 8, 2014 - 03:01 in Health & Medicine

Hospitals can greatly improve their flu vaccination rate among health care workers by using a mandatory employee vaccination policy, according to a study. Researchers say the health system studied achieved employee vaccination rates of 99 percent in the first two years of its mandatory policy, in which annual vaccination compliance is a condition of employment.

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