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Hospitals and birthing centers are recognized for attaining high coverage for hepatitis B vaccine at birth and meeting additional criteria. Immunize​Org is pleased to renew this institution into its Hepatitis B Birth Dose Honor Roll, for a total of 594 honorees.

The birthing institution, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, has a reported hepatitis B birth dose coverage rate of 90% (10 years).

To learn whether your organization qualifies and to access the application form, please see Hepatitis B Birth Dose Honor Roll online at: www.immunize.org/about/excellence/honor-rolls/hepb-birth-dose/apply.

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Get the immunization news you need in this week’s issue of IZ Express.

More Top Stories include:
• Summit Adult Vaccine Recommendations Review (SAVRR) Council advises continuing to follow current seasonal respiratory virus vaccine recommendations until 2026–27 recommendations are published by medical societies

• Immunize​.org updates “Questions and Answers” resource on zoster

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For intervals of 3 months or less, you should use 28 days (4 weeks) as a “month.” For intervals of 4 months or longer, you should consider a month a “calendar month”: the interval from one calendar date to the next a month later. This is a convention that was introduced on the childhood schedule in 2002 and discussed in the paper “Evaluation of Invalid Vaccine Doses” (Stokley S, Maurice E, Smith PJ, et al. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2004; 26[1]: 34–40).

You’ll find this answer, as well as other scheduling vaccines Q&As, here: www.immunize.org/ask-experts/topic/scheduling-vaccines.

The ImmunizeOrg website offers a wealth of resources to support your vaccination practice. You’ll find “Standing Orders for Administering Rotavirus Vaccine to Infants” here: www.immunize.org/wp-content/uploads/catg.d/p3087.pdf.

This 3-page PDF document (last updated May 2026) is free to download, print, and share.

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A “dormitory-style” refrigerator is a small combination refrigerator/freezer unit that is outfitted with one exterior door and an evaporator plate (cooling coil), which is usually located inside an icemaker compartment (freezer) within the refrigerator. This type of unit has severe temperature control and stability issues. However, there are compact refrigerators or freezers noted as “pharmaceutical grade” or “purpose-built for vaccine storage” that have been engineered to maintain even temperatures throughout the unit, and these may meet the needs of a small office. In general, the unit you select must be large enough to store the year’s largest vaccine inventory without crowding and to store water bottles (in a refrigerator) and frozen coolant packs (in a freezer) to minimize temperature fluctuations. One way to assure that the unit you purchase will reliably maintain proper vaccine storage temperatures is to look for a unit labeled as meeting the NSF/ANSI 456 certification standard for vaccine storage. This voluntary certification indicates that the model has been tested and certified to maintain proper storage conditions under a range of normal clinic conditions.

You’ll find this answer, as well as other vaccine storage and handling Q&As, here: www.immunize.org/ask-experts/topic/storage-handling.

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The ImmunizeOrg website offers a wealth of resources to support your vaccination practice. You’ll find “Checklist of Current Versions of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Guidance and Clinic Support Tools” here: www.immunize.org/wp-content/uploads/catg.d/p3130.pdf.

This 2-page PDF (last updated May 2026) is free to download, print, and share.

ImmunizeOrg experts help the media understand and communicate with the public about vaccines and vaccination policies and practices. On June 9, RealClear Health featured ImmunizeOrg’s Director for Scientific Communications, John D. Grabenstein, PhD, RPh, in the article: “You Really Want Your Radio Operator to Be Vaccinated.”

Read the entire article: https://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2026/06/09/you_really_want_your_radio_operator_to_be_vaccinated_1187591.html

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