The “Sharp Shooter Award” is awarded to a WyVIP provider to recognize excellence and/or innovation demonstrated through an outstanding project or initiative focused on improving immunization outcomes.  

Current Sharp Shooter Award Recipient:

Cheyenne Children's Clinic

 

LaChel May  at far left and Lisa Wordeman at far right, from the Immunization Section present the Sharp Shooter Award to the Cheyenne Children's Clinic staff. Also pictured: Brittany Darner, Tina Nelson and Bobbi Stocker.

They have earned this honor for their enhanced efforts in administering Hepatitis A vaccine. Cheyenne Children’s Clinic staff recognized the importance of delivering this recommended (but currently not required) vaccine. They began to offer it during all routine immunization appointments for patients within the recommended age, as well as to those children in need of catch-up doses. Congratulations to Cheyenne Children’s Clinic for their tremendous effort to immunize pediatric patients against Hepatitis A! 

 

Eligible Candidates:  

Recipients of the Wyoming Immunization Section's“Sharp Shooter Award” must be currently enrolled in the WyVIP program, although applications submitted by providers for interventions implemented in conjunction with other partners will be considered.  

 

Award Application Procedures:  

To apply for a “Sharp Shooter Award,” WyVIP providers must complete an award application, see insert. Award applications will be reviewed by WIP staff.

Sharp Shooter Award Application Form 

Interactive form can be faxed or emailed to the Immunization Section for consideration

 

Previous Sharp Shooter Recipients

Washakie County Public Health in Worland

Washakie County PHN identified that several doses of Menactra, the vaccine for meningococcal disease, would expire if not used. In an attempt to prevent vaccine wastage and improve immunization coverage rates, they identified an opportunity to protect high-risk youth at the Wyoming Boys’ School in Worland against meningococcal disease in early 2008.

 

Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department

In an attempt to increase vaccine uptake among adolescents, Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department collaborated with school nurses in Laramie County School District #1 to provide free immunizations to students on school grounds in their Mobile Response Unit (MRU). Students were offered Tdap and MCV4 during these on-site immunization clinics.

 

UW Student Health in Laramie

In an attempt to increase vaccine protection among students under the age of 19, UW Student Health waived the administration fee for their adolescent-specific vaccines for the freshman students eligible to receive meningococcal, tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis and HPV vaccines during the first part of the fall 2008 semester.