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How Providence
vaccinated
more than half
of its 120,000
employees
across 7 states
By Kelly Gooch
A
my Compton-Phillips, MD, execu-
tive vice president and chief clinical
officer of Providence, told CNBC the
Renton, Wash.-based health system has had
a timely rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine to
employees thanks to artificial intelligence and
careful planning.
As of Jan. 4, Providence reported it has given
the first dose to more than half of its 120,000
employees in 51 hospitals in seven states.
Dr. Compton-Phillips told CNBC planning is
a large factor in this success.
"All along with COVID-19, we've been think-
ing that planning is the antidote to panic," she
said, adding that Providence started planning
in September for a vaccine and how it would
handle distributing it to employees.
She said the health system knew tools would
be needed to help Providence identify the
highest-risk employees, and it considered
how it could validate data and then use that
data to reach out to people about vaccination
using modern tools like texting.
"Because we did that planning and we started
the rollout as soon as the CDC said they were
ready to go, we were ready with our capac-
ity to start notifying our caregivers to come
get treated with the vaccine," Dr. Compton-
Phillips told CNBC.
Part of that planning was using artificial
intelligence to develop a "validate and verify"
tool. Dr. Compton-Phillips said the tool had
information about roles and work locations,
"everything from doctors to housekeepers to
respiratory therapists to IT people." Employees
were also asked to verify their risk and role.
"I think the biggest lesson is don't hesitate
to start doing something. Some immuniza-
tions are better than none. And to ask your
people, make sure you hear from them, not
just trusting the data," Dr. Compton-Phillips
told CNBC. n
