Template Partner E-mail
The below template e-mail can be customized and used for distribution to your organization’s members and constituents via listserv communications/updates, as appropriate. SUBJECT LINE: Prepare for the Upcoming Influenza Season: Resources Now Available Targeting Patients with Diabetes The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) is providing resources and professional tools as part of a comprehensive initiative to help increase influenza immunization rates among adults and children with diabetes, the fifth deadliest disease in the U.S. Only about half of all patients with diabetes are immunized against influenza each year. Many health care professionals provide care for this high-risk population, and all play a role in improving vaccination rates. [Insert heading/brief paragraph on organization’s diabetes education/influenza immunization awareness programming, as appropriate.] NFID’s ongoing initiative reinforces a comprehensive approach toward improving influenza vaccination rates among patients with diabetes, who are at increased risk for serious complications, including high or low blood sugar and diabetic coma. [INSERT ORGANIZATION] encourages you to begin using these materials and resources to encourage influenza immunization among this at-risk population. The resources are designed for practices and institutions that provide influenza vaccine, as well as for those that do not provide vaccine services yet can refer patients to be immunized elsewhere. Available resources include: A Call to Action document highlighting the severity of influenza in people with diabetes and the benefits of annual vaccination for this at-risk population and their close contacts. A monograph outlining key strategies and national models for improving immunization rates in adults and children with diabetes Ready-to-use professional resources that health care professionals can use to help increase dangerously low influenza vaccination rates among people with diabetes
NFID’s Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates in Adults and Children with Diabetes initiative is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant to NFID from sanofi pasteur. ###