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