This white paper outlines policy barriers and strategies that specifically impact Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in their efforts to increase adult immunization rates among their medically underserved patients. While FQHCs encounter many barriers that also impact other providers (e.g., issues with storage, inventory management, and immunization information systems) this paper focuses specifically on challenges and opportunities that are based in policy, and that are unique (or largely unique) to FQHCs.
The white paper addresses six areas of FQHC policy, and provides background information and potential strategies to increase adult immunization rates for each.
