Resources for Health Care Professionals

Ebola: Information for Health Care Professionals, First Responders and Others

Update June 25, 2014: Please note the url for VDH: Death Certification - Your Final Act of Patient Care has changed. It can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/VADeathcertificationcourse

Clinicians' Letters
Urgent updates from the Health Commissioner

2015

• Measles Prevention

• Influenza Update

2014

• Preparing for Influenza in the Shadow of Ebola
• Commissioner's Letter to Colleagues in Higher Education
• Ebola Virus Update #3
• Ebola Virus Update #2
• Ebola Virus Update
• Acute Neurologic Illness with Focal Limb Weakness of Unknown Etiology in Children
• Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS)
• Emerging Infections Update: Enterovirus D68
• Completion of Death Certificates
• Emerging Infections Update: Ebola Virus Disease
• Update on Emerging Arboviral Infections: Chikungunya Virus and Dengue Fever Infections
• Comparison of Chikungunya Virus Infection and Dengue Fever
• Tick-borne Diseases in Virginia
• Recommended Laboratory Assays for Select Tick-borne Diseases
• Mosquito-borne Viral Diseases in Virginia and among Travelers
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the United States
• Health Commissioner Influenza Update January 2014

2013

• Norovirus and Influenza December 2013
• Newborn Screening
• Acute Hepatitis and Dietary Supplement
• Nationwide Shortages of Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) Antigen Solutions
• New Influenza and MERS-CoV Awareness
• ACIP Immunization Recommendations
• Possible Contamination of Frozen Berry Blend
• Measles Cases
• Lyme Disease in Virginia
• Mumps Infections
• Emerging Infections of Public Concern
• Virginia Clinicians' Letter: Meningitis and Stroke Associated with Contaminated Product
  (March 7, 2013)
• Use of Isoniazid During Shortages
• VDH Guidelines for Use of Isoniazid During Shortages
• Influenza Vaccination Update
• Enhanced Public Health Surveillance During the Presidential Inauguration

2012

• Update: Fungal Infections Associated with Contaminated Product and CDC Recommendations Regarding
  Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Dec 21, 2012)
• Influenza Season 2012 - 2013
• Virginia Clinicians' Letter: Update on Fungal Meningitis Associated with Contaminated Product (Nov 28, 2012)
• Epidemiology Update: Fungal Infections Associated with Contaminated Product
• Meningitis and Stroke Associated with Potentially Contaminated Product
• HAN Alert from CDC
• Aspergillus Meningitis
• Preparedness for Health Care Professionals
• Health Districts and Directors
• H3N2v Letter for Physicians
• H3N2v Letter for Health Care Professionals
• Emergency Preparedness
• Legislative Updates
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Hepatitis B/C Update
• Lyme Disease
• Advance Health Care Directive Registry
• Lo/Ovral Recall
• Cronobacter Illness in Infants

2011

• Americans Traveling Abroad
• Caring for Veterans Info for Health Care Professionals
• Influenza in Virginia
• Earthquake and Hurricane
• Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM)
• HIV Testing
• Death Certificate Regulations
• Please note the url for VDH: Death Certification - Your Final Act of Patient Care has changed. It can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/VADeathcertificationcourse

• E. coli O104:H4, CDC Health Alert
• Measles
• Lyme Disease
• Radiation in Virginia
• Influenza Update, February 2011

2010

• Influenza Update, December 2010
• Teen Pregnancy and Preterm Rates Improving
• Changes in the Virginia AIDS Drugs Assistance Program (ADAP)
• Foodborne Illness
• Increase in Pertussis
• Promoting Folic Acid Intake to Decrease Prematurity and Neural Tube Defects
• Influenza in Virginia, 2010-2011
• Death Certification
• Lyme Disease

Training Opportunities

The Federal Virginia State Loan Repayment Program
The Commonwealth of Virginia offers incentive programs that will repay outstanding medical education debt in exchange for medical service in a medically underserved area. The Federal Virginia State Loan Repayment Program application cycle is OPEN and will close July 15, 2014. To read more about this program, please visit here.

Updated Guidance and Best Practices

• Guidance for Hospitals Boarding Patients Admitted through the Emergency Department When an Inpatient Bed is Not Immediately Available
• Press Release
• PCR Testing for Diagnosing Pertussis

Emergency Preparedness

• Guidance Documents for Healthcare Professionals Including Hurricane Preparedness Information

Meaningful Use

• Electronic Health Record Incentive Program

Request Consultation or Presentation on a Range of Public Health Topics
For individual practices and clinics, annual association meetings and healthcare provider conferences.

• Contact
  Suzi.Silverstein@vdh.virginia.gov
  804-864-7538

Virginia Immunization Information System (VIIS)
Join the thousands who have registered with Virginia’s free, web-based computerized medical record system for immunization data that documents all immunizations a person has received from all medical sources into one definitive, accurate record. Click here to learn more about what VIIS has to offer.

• VIIS webpage for providers

Contact
Mylam Ly
Clinical Liaison
Office of Risk Communication and Education
(804) 864-7263
mylam.ly@vdh.virginia.gov