Texas Children’s Team Members,
Many of you have already opted in to participate in Texas Children’s Phase 1 deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine. If you have not already, you can still opt in to receive the vaccine by filling out the questionnaire at the link below:
Click here to access the Opt-In Questionnaire
All information is kept strictly confidential and only accessed by Employee Health.
Although we are currently planning for supplies of the vaccine to be limited initially, Texas Children’s has designed an equitable allocation framework to assign team members into different distribution phases, based on recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine, as well as guidance from state and federal authorities. As part of this process, Employee Health will evaluate team members who opt in against multiple objective risk elements, all of which are rated equally and include a person’s risk of acquiring infection, risk of transmitting infection, risk of severe illness and death, and risk of an individual’s infection impacting Texas Children’s ability to provide care for our community.
Please note that the pace at which we advance through each phase will be contingent on when and how many doses of the vaccine Texas Children’s receives. To stay up to date on the latest information and timing, please check your email, Connect and our COVID-19 Vaccine website at texaschildrensbenefits.org/CovidVaccine. To view the email announcement sent earlier this week, please click here.
Thank you for your tireless leadership and your compassionate care of our patients, their families and one another throughout our COVID-19 response.
Dr. Julie Boom and Jermaine Monroe
Co-Chairs, COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force