Vaccines for Children (VFC) program
For King County health care providers
Vaccines for Children (VFC) was established in 1993 to remove the barriers of cost and access to attaining childhood immunizations. The program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State of Washington, and supplies vaccines to providers across the state.
Most public and private health care providers who immunize children in King County are currently enrolled. All children from birth up to the 19th birthday are eligible to receive these vaccines; see below for vaccine-specific restrictions.
Enrollment
Health care providers located in King County are invited to enroll in the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program—contact Public Health at (206) 296-4774 and ask for the VFC Program Manager, or email vfcinfo@kingcounty.gov. The enrollment process includes a site visit, specific vaccine storage and monitoring equipment requirements, documentation guidelines, monthly reporting, and more.
Find a VFC-enrolled clinic near you
Note: Most clinics do not accept walk-in patients. If you are not a current patient, call in advance to check if the clinic is accepting new patients.
VFC Provider Manual
Vaccine management plan templates
- Refrigerated vaccines
- Frozen vaccines
- CDC vaccine storage and handling toolkit
- Thermometer guidelines
- Temperature monitoring guide
- Temperature monitoring log
- Preparing the refrigerator
- Preparing the freezer
- Refrigerated vaccine storage
- Frozen vaccine storage
- Vaccine storage incident protocol
- Vaccine incident and return report form
- Seasonal influenza vaccine return form
- Transporting vaccines
- Vaccines with diluents: how to use them
- Charting patients in IIS
- Charting patients on paper
- Screening checklist for contraindications
- Form: decision not to vaccinate my child
- Best vaccine choices in IIS
- Multiple signature log – influenza vaccine
- Federal law and vaccine information statements
- Instructions for the use of vaccine information statements
- Vaccine information statements
- Recommended immunization schedules for children and adolescents
- Administering vaccines: dose, route, site, needle size
- Summary of recommendations for child/teen immunization
- School year 2017-18 vaccine requirements
- Certificate of immunization status (cis)
- Certificate of exemption
- Vaccinations for preteens and teens
- Hepatitis A and B immunization guidelines
- Guide to contraindications and precautions, commonly used vaccines
- Comforting restraint for immunizations
- Vaccine administration (excerpted from the CDC's Pink Book)
- Medical management of vaccine reactions
- Procedures for acute onset allergic reactions to vaccine
- The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
- National vaccine injury compensation program
- The provider's role
- Thimerosal table
- Allergens
- Vaccine excipients
- Religious leaders and porcine gelatin in vaccines
- MMR vaccine does not cause autism: examine the evidence!
- What would happen if we stopped vaccinations?
- Resources on vaccine safety (web sites, web pages, journal articles, videos, books)
- Clear answers and smart advice about your baby's shots
Resources:
- For the latest VFC news, view our Communicable Disease Epidemiology & Immunization Quarterly
- Current vaccine shortages (CDC)
Past VFC program alerts:
Subscribe to future VFC program alerts in the upper-right column of this page.
VFC Alert #13 – September 5, 2017
- Flu vaccine update
VFC Alert #12 – August 28, 2017
- Flu vaccine update
VFC Alert #11 – August 10, 2017
- Recombivax Hep B availability issue
- Introducing the IIS School Module
- YouTube vaccine trainings
- Requesting state supplied adult vaccines
- Menveo vaccine recall
- State supplied adult vaccine
- Online vaccine returns
- Online returns training
- Vaccine hesitancy training
- Eligibility changes for VFC-supplied Hep B and MMR
- Immunization resource links
- Online vaccine returns
- Free vaccination information app
- Updated immunization guidelines
- 2017-18 flu season presentations
- Provider agreement renewal – deadline is April 30th
- IIS report deadline change
- Vaccine Information Statement update
- IIS report deadline change
- Temperature log due date
- It's Spring and that means provider agreement renewal time
- Updated vaccine labels for storage and handling
- 2017 provider agreement
- Vaccine schedule changes
- HPV Reminder Magnets available
- Temperature logs and MIN-MAX
- Update your CDC "Pink Book", 13th ed.
- HPV Reminder Magnets available
- The 2017 provider agreemnet delayed
- VFC program storage equipment requirements
- Step away from the provider agreement
- Flu vaccine
- ...and more flu vaccine
- IIS system issues
- The mumps outbreak: Document mumps immunity status of staff!
- VFC program storage equipment requirements
- HPV information statement revised
- HPV vaccination campaign materials
- Correction: VFC program provider agreement renewals
- Vaccine shipping in December
- IIS user support
- Mumps outbreak
- Vaccine shipping in December-January
- Upcoming events
- Fast facts
- Holiday shipping information
- Where to turn for help
VFC Halloween Alert #20 – Oct. 31, 2016
- CDC and ACIP support revised HPV vaccine schedule
- Other ACIP recommendations
- Flu vaccine supply issues
- Online vaccine returns training
- Spooky reminders
- VFC program storage equipment requirements
- Flu season 2016-17 update
- Here it comes again—vaccine selection
- Meningococcal-B vaccines
- How to: Log temperatures
VFC Alert #17 – Sept. 15, 2016
- The latest on flu season 2016-17
- Vaccine supply issues
- Online vaccine returns training
- HPV vaccine "reminder" magnets—Seattle version
- Fast facts
Please contact the VFC Program at 206-296-4774 or use our online form whenever you have a question about vaccine storage and safety or visit WA State Dept. of Health's related website.
It is important to consult with Public Health before making decisions about vaccine viability. We are here to help you protect your vaccine supply and provide safe immunizations.
SHIPMENTS: Please allow 8-10 business days from date of request for refrigerated vaccine shipments; allow 15 business days for frozen vaccine shipments.
Link/share our site at www.kingcounty.gov/vfc