Houston Area Immunization Partnership

DSHS Announcement

New information for enrolling children affected by Ike in Texas Schools

Please read for the latest announcement from the Texas Department of State Health Services about an extension of time for producing immunization records for children affected by Hurricane Ike, who are enrolling in Texas Schools.

An extension until November 7th has been granted for children who are displaced by Ike to locate their shot records to fulfill school enrollment requirements. Please see the letter below for instructions on how to locate records in ImmTrac and the Houston-Harris County Immunization Registry.

Provisional Enrollment Extension for Students Displaced by Hurricane Ike (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

Meningitis Death in Houston

On Friday, October 31, Houston lost another adolescent child to meningitis. HAIP extends its condolences to the family of the child who succumbed to this disease . It is a stark reminder of the importance of immunizing our adolescents against this deadly disease. Click here to read more.

Texas Immunization Summit 2008

Thank you to all of you who joined us at this years summit. We hope that you were able to get a lot of good information to help improve your immunization program. For those of you who missed the meeting, a synopsis of it will be posted here shortly.

2008 Immunization Summit Agenda

We Are Growing!

In order to better serve our community we have changed our name from the Houston-Harris County Immunization Registry to Houston Area Immunization Partnership (HAIP).

This name change signals an expansion of our mission from supporting our local registry to eradicating vaccine-preventable diseases through development of public and private partnerships. In the first step of this process we conducted a pro-bono marketing study. Read More

Did You Get Your Immunization Materials?

We mailed an introduction package to nearly 500 providers in the greater Houston area. Did you get yours? This package included:

Laminated 2008 Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedules (both full size and badge-size),
Screening questionnaires for Children and Teens,
An up-to-date list of CPT codes
Pens, lanyards and other items.

Clinics who received these packages expressed appreciation for them and plan to use them in their workflow.

To sign up for future mail-outs or to request immunization resources, please contact us.

Improve Your Immunization Rates

Houston Community College and the Houston Area Rotary Clubs have teamed up together to create a fellowship project that will place students part-time in immunization clinics in the Houston area to enter immunization records into registries and help implement an effective reminder/recall process.

Participating clinics must be authorized registry users, be committed to immunization best practices, and must demonstrate a plan to continue using reminder/recall.

If you are interested in joining this project please contact us.

HAIP Launch Event

On April 24, the Houston Area Immunization Partnership launched its new mission, vision and scope of operations to a packed house at a Rotary sponsored luncheon.

Dr. Carol Baker, member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and noted author of the Red Book, spoke on “Immunizations: Truth or Consequences” and warned the crowd that the current backlash against immunizations in the media was very dangerous. She urged parents and providers to know the facts about the true risk of choosing not to immunize children and reminded the group that immunizations have been one of the most important public health measures to protect our community against vaccine preventable diseases.

After she spoke, the Houston Area Immunization Partnership awarded Frankie Milley, Founder of Meningitis Angels, with the first annual “Protector” award to recognize her dedication to protecting our community from deadly vaccine preventable diseases.

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The Houston Area Immunization Partnership helps individuals, physicians, and others with an interest in immunization to make smart choices about protecting our community from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Vision: A community protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Mission: To eradicate vaccine-preventable diseases by developing and coordinating our community's resources through public and private partnerships.

To fulfill our mission, we advocate evidence-based public policy that supports high immunization rates, encourage the use of immunization registries, provide educational resources at no cost to individuals and healthcare providers, and promote a "medical home" for every individual.

Advocacy	Immunization Registries	Education	Medical Home

Immunize. Prevent What's Preventable.