To: Board of Health
Through: Jennifer Ludwig, Public Health Director, Arapahoe County Public Health
Prepared By:
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Talitha Appel, Immunization Program Nurse Manager, Arapahoe County Public Health
Melissa Spencer, Director of Community Health Nursing, Arapahoe County Public Health
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Presenter: Jennifer Ludwig, Public Health Director, Arapahoe County Public Health
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Subject:
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Clinical After-Hours Pay for Exempt Clinical Employees
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Purpose and Request:
recommended action
To increase access to services among our most disparate communities, our funders are requiring us to change our clinic model to have more flexibility outside our normal clinic hours and be mobile, which means we need clinical staff to pick up additional shifts and be appropriately compensated to do so. While non-exempt staff are eligible to receive time and a half for hours worked over 40 hours per week for events outside of normal business hours, exempt staff are not currently compensated for afterhours coverage.
This request is to incentivize through appropriate compensation exempt clinical employees to participate in an approved clinical event outside of normal business hours. Examples of clinical events that take place on the weekends or during evening hours include, but are not limited to:
* Vaccination clinics (e.g.: Shots for Tots & Teens or back-to-school immunization clinics)
* Outbreak events (e.g.: Hepatitis A Immunoglobulin administration at homes or businesses and vaccination administration in jails or long-term care facilities)
* Providing immunization-specific clinical education at schools and childcare center events (e.g.: back-to-school nights, childcare enrollment fairs)
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Background and Discussion:
The COVID-19 pandemic taught us that we must increase access to core public health services to increase equity in the BIPOC population. Additionally, over the past three years of the pandemic Colorado vaccination rates have...
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