20-10-1302. Purpose.

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20-10-1302. Purpose.

20-10-1302. Purpose. It is recognized that: (1) The sixth leading cause of death in Arkansas is the combined diagnostic category of pneumonia and influenza; (2) Approximately ninety percent (90%) of the pneumonia and influenza deaths are in those over sixty-five (65) years of age; (3) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that individuals over the age of sixty-five (65) years have annual flu shots and a pneumococcal vaccine one (1) time; (4) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further suggests that consent for immunization be acquired at the time of nursing home admission; (5) Current utilization of the flu shots by nursing home residents is approximately fifty percent (50%); (6) The elderly living in an institutional setting, where disease may be more readily transmitted, are less protected than those living in the community; and (7) The pneumococcal vaccine utilization by nursing home residents is approximately thirty percent (30%).

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-10-1302

Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.