What's New for Providers
New! Child & Adolescent Health Examination Form (CH205) will be available soon via the Online Registry
New York City health examination forms required before attending a NYC school, day care program, after school program, and early intervention program and camp will now be streamlined into one new form, the Child & Adolescent Health Examination Form (CH205). This new form replaces the following forms: the School New Admission Examination Form (211S), the Bureau of Day Care Children’s New Admission Medical Record (318KA-1), the Bureau of Day Care Children’s Periodic/Follow-up Exam Medical Record (318KA), and the Health Record for Children in Day Camps & After School & Youth Centers (DRC7).
The Online Registry will make available the CH205 form, where the CH205 can be filled out online, then printed. This official form will be pre-completed with the patient’s name, date of birth, valid immunizations reported to the CIR, lead test dates and results, and the information entered by the provider as required by the health form and school program.
Both old and new forms will be accepted until December 31, 2008. After December 31, 2008, please use only the CH205 form.
Please check back the Online Registry in early September for this new feature.
To visit the Online Registry, click here
Reporting to go paperless by January 1, 2009
Effective January 1, 2009, all NYC providers are required to report immunizations administered to patients younger than 19 years to the CIR either by using the Online Registry or by sending electronic files extracted from billing, encounter or clinical information systems. Visit How to Report for more information.
New! NYCVACSCENE publication: 2008 Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) now recommends that all children 6 months through 18 years of age receive annual influenza vaccination. Children 6 months to <9 years of age should receive two doses of influenza vaccine the first season that they are vaccinated. Those who received only 1 dose of flu vaccine in their first flu season should get 2 doses in their second year of flu vaccination. View the NYCVacscene publication.
Reminder! Order your flu vaccines now!
Order for VFC-eligible patients- contact the VFC program at (212) 447-8175.
Order for non-VFC eligible patients- call your distributor, the Health Department’s Provider Access Line at 1-866-692-3641, or visit nyc.gov/health/flu to view the notice on Influenza Vaccine Ordering for 2008-09 (June 2008).
