NonFederal Vaccines...Federal Vaccines..... Making sense of it all:Here's how McKesson approaches it:

McKesson receives and ships the following vaccines to providers, in addition to the standard Federally contracted vaccine inventory:

Non-Federal vaccines and biologicals, which include those vaccine presentations (i.e., NDCs) that are not available on the CDC Federal contract

Federal vaccines purchased with state dollars using the Federal contract

Vaccine presentations that are available on the CDC Federal contract, but are purchased with state dollars using a non-Federal contract   

In order to ensure proper management of this inventory, McKesson needs to receive information from grantees detailing incoming bulk orders.  Grantees must complete the form on the next tab to inform McKesson that an order has been placed with a manufacturer.  Failure to include the Excel spreadsheet will delay notification of receipt of vaccine by McKesson to the grantee.  Please read the following instructions prior to completing the form, and read the instructions at the bottom of the form prior to submitting it. 

Federal Contract Vaccines: 

For vaccines ordered using a Federal contract, and for vaccines that you ordered outside the Federal contract even though they exist on the Federal contract, select the NDC from the drop down list in the "NDC" field of the Federal Contracts section.  The "Vaccine", "Manufacturer", "Brand", and "Description" fields for that NDC will automatically populate with the appropriate information.  However, each grantee will still need to complete the remaining fields as appropriate. 

Non-Federal Contract Vaccines:

For vaccines ordered that do not exist on the Federal contract, complete all the fields when filling out the Non-Federal contract section of the form.  These fields do not auto-populate because of the various vaccines and contracts that exist between the grantees and the manufacturers.  

Grantees should follow their normal processes for placing bulk orders both within VACMAN and outside of VACMAN.  For vaccines ordered outside of VACMAN, grantees should inform the manufacturers to ship the product to the address below: 

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vmbip/downloads/agm/2010/state-317-funded-orders.rtf.

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An amusing dialogue in a recent training session for VacMan: CDC transcript

We have a lot of providers that want to have thecontact person sign for the shipment or they have a special door that they haveto have it delivered to.

                              Wehad always put that under depot instructions then we found out that McKessondoesn't see that part.

(Dennis Bryant):      That’scorrect.

(Judy Baker):      Sothey told us to start putting it under these special instructions. But thecharacters does not match up from VACMAN to McKesson.

                              VACMANwill allow more characters than what McKesson can actually see.

(Dennis Bryant):      Right.And we've been beaten this over the head for the last two years that the - especiallythe shipping instruction’s only a 50 character field. And I think that’s aproblem.

                              Somegrantees are - even use the address line too to show the contact person becausethat gets passed on. McKesson prints that on a label and sends it forward

Jumping ahead..some context missing

And if it’s more than one section of the type ofbusiness that you have vaccine get ruined because the nurse or the contact didn’tget it. .

Bryant: I understand that. And the problem with that is weonly handle the order passing it to McKesson and McKesson only passes the boxto the shipper.

                              Sothere’s not a lot we can do because it’s a different organization altogether iswhat I'm trying to point out.

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VACMAN Training Session 2010

Training Session

Transcript

Accountability...........& Functionality

Hahahahahahahaha..............and we Wonder how/why confusion and delays persist.

There is some debate raging in Georgia about whether people should conceal their holstered handguns while in public.  Some believe that wearing handguns openly will result in a loss of the element of surprise during a criminal attack, such as an armed robbery, while others believe that wearing handguns openly deters criminal attack.  For Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell, who carry openly as a routine, the issue is no longer academic.

Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell were dining in the Wafflehouse on Barrett Parkway at I-575 in Kennesaw at 4:45 in the morning recently when a scout for an armed robbery crew entered the restaurant to case it.  At the time, Matt and J.P. thought he looked a little suspicious, as he was wandering around the small restaurant like he was looking for someone.  Unknown to Matt and J.P., two cars full of armed robbers were parked behind the restaurant waiting for the scout's report. 

The scout saw that two of the customers were wearing holstered 1911 Springfield Mil-Spec .45 pistols, and he immediately turned and left the store.

Meanwhile, conscientious Cobb County Police Officer D. Lowe had noticed suspicious cars sitting behind the restaurant in the dark and decided to investigate.  He caught men with masks and rifles who had been preparing to rob the Wafflehouse.  The criminals informed the police that they had changed their mind upon discovering armed customers and were waiting for Matt and J.P. to leave.  Ironically, the police car was pulling in to the parking lot just as Matt and J.P. were driving away.  In other words, had Matt and J.P. not been armed, the robbery probably would have occurred before the police intervened. 

Captain Jerry Quan, the Commander for Precinct One, where the Wafflehouse is located, confirmed Matt Brannan's story as one in which the open display of a pistol deterred a well armed robbery crew. 

Matt Brannan is making an Open Records Act request, and there will be an update to this story when more information is available.  The case number is  09-133500.  There will be updates and follow up articles as more information becomes available.