MANDATORY FLU VACCINATION

All LUMC, SSOM and Niehoff School of Nursing employees, volunteers and students will be required to receive an annual vaccination for the seasonal flu.  Gottlieb employees with direct patient contact must also receive a flu vaccination.  Any employee who does not get vaccinated by December 1, 2009 will not be able to work in order to prevent the spread of seasonal influenza to Loyola patients, visitors, employees and their families.  Absences related to lack of compliance with the mandatory seasonal influenza immunization program will be treated as unexcused and unpaid absences.

Please refer to the letter from Dr. Whelton and Q& A for  employees at the following link.  Flu vaccine.

April 1, 2009

Dear Doctor:

The Loyola Occupational Health Service welcomes you to the Loyola University Health System!

In order to ensure your compliance with occupational health and safety recommendations, prior to assuming your house staff position with Loyola, you will need to provide documentation for your employee health record. Forms used at Loyola may be very similar to the documents you have on file at your medical school. Also, immunization information is likely most easily available through the student health record you were probably required to have in place in order to perform your student clerkships.

So that you can start your residency clinical rotations without delay, please return the following information by May 5, 2009 to:

     Loyola Occupational Health Services
     1211 Roosevelt Road
     Maywood, IL 60153

1. Loyola Evaluation History Form – Please complete. The information on this form will be used to generate an employee health record number and serve as the basis of your confidential employee health record.
    
2. OSHA Respirator Medical Evaluation Questionnaire – Please complete. Answers to these nine questions will be used with your N95 fit testing done during Residency Orientation to qualify your respirator use at Loyola.
    
3. Immunization records – Please request a copy of your immunization records from your medical school health office and send with your completed forms. To begin work, your employee health record must include proof of immunization or protective titers as follows:          

A.   Measles (protective titer or evidence of two immunizations after 12 months of age)

B.   Mumps (protective titer or evidence of two immunizations after 12 months of age)

C.  Rubella (protective titer or evidence of one immunization after 12 months of age)

D.  Varicella (protective titer, documentation of two doses of vaccine, or history of illness)

E.   Hepatitis B immunity (evidence of immunization and/or titer)

F.   Report of TB skin test applied and read during 90 days prior to assuming clinical responsibilities (or chest x-ray report done during 90 days prior to assuming clinical responsibilities).

We look forward to seeing you during orientation. If you have any questions or concerns about the requested information discussed in this letter, please e-mail me at mcapellischell@lumc.edu.

Sincerely,

Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, MD, MPA
Medical Director
Loyola Occupational Health Services

Prior to assuming your housestaff position with Loyola, you are required to comply with several occupational/employee health requirements including:

     completion of a medical/occupational questionnaire
     compliance with infection control policies regarding
         immunizations
     compliance with TB screening program, and
     compliance with fit testing for an N95 respirator

In an effort to assure that you have ample time to comply with the medical center requirements, linked are the following:

	Evaluation History Form, to be completed in its entirety: 335kb
	OSHA Respirator Medical Evaluation Questionnaire. questions 1-9: 26kb

Additionally, be advised that you are required to provide proof of the following:

	immunity to varicella (protective titer, documentation of two doses of vaccine, or history of illness)
	immunity to measles (protective titer or evidence of two immunizations after 12 months of age)
	immunity to mumps (protective titer or evidence of two immunizations after 12 months of age)
	immunity to rubella (protective titer or evidence of one immunization after 12 months of age)
	documentation of hepatitis B immunity (evidence of immunization and/or titer)
	documentation of TB skin test applied and read during 90 days prior to assuming clinical responsibilities

All forms and requisite documentation must be returned to the Department of Occupational/Employee Health Services by May 5, 2009.

If you need a TB designate nurse to come to your department and read TB tests, please refer to the linked list for the most current list of nurse designates. 
Current TB Designates.

LUMC Occupational Health Services
1211 W. Roosevelt Road
Maywood, IL 60153

Please be advised that no house officer will be allowed to assume clinical responsibilities until compliance with all of the above occupational health requirements is documented.