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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any subsequent amendments, between the City of Long Beach and the State of California Department of Health Services in the amount of $468,326 for the provision of immunization services for the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2017. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Since 1993, the Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) has received funding from the State of California Department of Health Services (State) to supplement local childhood immunization programs and services. The goal of the Health Department’s Immunization Program is to increase the immunization rates of children and to decrease the occurrence of vaccine-preventable diseases in Long Beach. The target objectives are that 90 percent of children in Long Beach will be fully vaccinated with all of the pediatric doses of vaccines recommended by age two, and that at least 95 percent of kindergarten enrollees into public and private schools in Long Beach will be up-to-date upon entry.
On December 10, 2013 the City Council authorized an agreement in the amount of $895,284 for a four-year period of July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2017. This funding was released by the State, on a cost-reimbursement basis. However, the State has now moved to a two-year grant cycle, and utilizes a Request for Proposals (RFP) process to determine the agencies that will receive grant funding. Therefore this two-year agreement in the amount of $468,326 will replace the previous four-year agreement.
Immunization Program Activities
The Health Department will use this new award to continue to provide and coordinate local immunization program activities. These funds will be utilized by the Health Department for the provision of the following services: immunization education for providers, parents and the community; outreach to target populations; supplemental staffing at Health Department immunization clinics; annual pre-sc...
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