Health Plan Performance Improvement Project: Pneumococcal Vaccination

Three Minnesota health plan—Medica, Metropolitan Health Plan, and UCare—collaborated to help low-income, community-dwelling seniors receive pneumococcal vaccinations. The health plans worked with Minnesota Immunization Information Coalition to ensure the availability of accurate member vaccination data. The group also focused on educating members about the importance of pneumococcal vaccination, as well as, ensuring that care coordinators helped to arrange clinic or home-based vaccinations. This project ended in 2009. The final data analysis indicates that with each measurement, the number of eligible members with a health plan claim for pneumococcal vaccine increased. The final measurement, 40.9 percent, shows an improvement of 15.9 percent over the baseline rate of 24.9 percent.

More information on this project in PIP News 2010, page 3. (10-page PDF)

Resources for care coordinators and providers

Care coordinator training 2009

MSHO PPV PIP: Project Summary July 2009 The Challenge Continues...Partnering with MIIC in the Fight Against Vaccine Preventable Disease. Presented by Linda Stevens, MDH Training and Assessment Analyst for Minnesota Immunization Information Connection within the Immunization, Tuberculosis, and International Health section of the Minnesota Department of Health. (43-minute audio file, 7/06/09)

• MSHO PPV PIP: Project Summary July 2009, with Linda Stevens, MDH; Anna Bernard, Medica; Holly Heisler, UCare; Barbara Post, MHP. Handout (17-page PDF)
• Pneumococcal and Polysaccharide Vaccination, What You Need to Know fact sheet for member education. Handout (2-page PDF)
• PPV Training presentation: MSHO Pneumococcal Performance Improvement Project. Handout (12-page PDF)

Pneumococcal Vaccination: MSHO Pneumococcal Performance Improvement Project to promote vaccine awareness. Presented by Kristin L. Nichols, MD, MPH, MBA professor of medicine, University of Minnesota, chief of medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Cente chair, MCAI (31-minute audio file)

• MSHO Pneumococcal Performance Improvement Project with Kristin L. Nichol, MD, MPH, MBA professor of medicine, University of Minnesota, chief of medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Cente chair, MCAI Handout (6-page PDF)
• MIIC Regional Contacts, MDH information about MIIC regions and regional coordinators. MDH Web page

Contact information

For more information on how your organization and Stratis Health can work together, please contact Karla Weng, program manager, 952-853-8570.