Vaccination Services of America (VSA) and Health Fairs of America specializes in providing nationwide on-site corproate flu shots, health screenings, health fairs, corporate health and strategic health benefit design across the U.S. with a highly trained and specialized nursing network of 1,000 nurses.
There are many companies that offer nationwide services, but quite commonly subcontract a large percentage of services to outside companies rather than provide that service directly. These companies rely on these third party vendors to deliver a quality professional service. What often happens is a "poor inconsistent level of service and lack of professionalism."
There are other nationwide providers that rely on a vast pool of temporary nurses to implement corporate flu shot programs. The result is an inconsistent deliver of professional flu shot administration because of varying degrees of competency and professionalism by the assigned nurses. In addition, these companies are organizing a large number of retail type events potentially diluting the ability to organize these events. Lastly, these providers have non-medical professionals managing their staff and programs that lack any medical training and credentials.
Vaccination Services of America
Health Fairs of America
http://www.vsamerica.com/
http://www.healthfairsamerica.com/
888-434-4FLU
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
How to Select a Flu shot Vendor
How do you Select a good flu shot provider for my company?
They are many options when selecting a flu shot provider to vaccinate your employees. You can call a local health provider and see if they offer the service locally. You can search the internet. You can contact other companies in the area.
Once you find some providers, how do you tell them apart? Sure the first question is always about the price $ per flu shot. Most companies purchase the vaccine at about the same price which makes flu shot a commodity service. What sets the provider apart like any health care service is the quality and professionalism of the clinical nursing staff and administrative support.
Too many companies search around for the lowest price assuming that the service is about the same when the opposite is the case. Would you go with the lowest price when searching for a physician? Probably not. You would look for a physician with a good reputation along with a reasonable fee.
You need to ask these type of questions:
(1) Does the company use have their own network of nurses or do they subcontract to temporary nursing agencies?
(2) How long has the company been in business. There are lot of companies in the industry that have come and gone over the years. Some have been recreated under a new company because of business failure so watch out.
(3) What type of pre-event organization assistance do they offer?
(4) Do they offer online appointments? If they do offer this service is this an outsourced service? If this is an outsourced service, what type of security does the service offer to protect privacy of information? Does the site have the capacity to handle a large employee population using the site? Does the application have adequate server backup capacity? These are just some of the questions that need to be answered.
Alan Kohll
President
Vaccination Services of America
Health Fairs of America
www.vsamerica.com
www.healthfairsamerica.com
888-434-4358
They are many options when selecting a flu shot provider to vaccinate your employees. You can call a local health provider and see if they offer the service locally. You can search the internet. You can contact other companies in the area.
Once you find some providers, how do you tell them apart? Sure the first question is always about the price $ per flu shot. Most companies purchase the vaccine at about the same price which makes flu shot a commodity service. What sets the provider apart like any health care service is the quality and professionalism of the clinical nursing staff and administrative support.
Too many companies search around for the lowest price assuming that the service is about the same when the opposite is the case. Would you go with the lowest price when searching for a physician? Probably not. You would look for a physician with a good reputation along with a reasonable fee.
You need to ask these type of questions:
(1) Does the company use have their own network of nurses or do they subcontract to temporary nursing agencies?
(2) How long has the company been in business. There are lot of companies in the industry that have come and gone over the years. Some have been recreated under a new company because of business failure so watch out.
(3) What type of pre-event organization assistance do they offer?
(4) Do they offer online appointments? If they do offer this service is this an outsourced service? If this is an outsourced service, what type of security does the service offer to protect privacy of information? Does the site have the capacity to handle a large employee population using the site? Does the application have adequate server backup capacity? These are just some of the questions that need to be answered.
Alan Kohll
President
Vaccination Services of America
Health Fairs of America
www.vsamerica.com
www.healthfairsamerica.com
888-434-4358
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