Dollars in Our Pockets: The Evolution of Direct-to-Beneficiary Programs in America
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Merit Mar 10, 2021 11:00:13 PM
As state and local governments take on mass COVID-19 vaccination efforts, they need to coordinate thousands of health care workers to administer the vaccine. A state that’s setting the pace on vaccinations for the rest of the country reached out to Merit for support.
Streamline state COVID-19 vaccination efforts by organizing and tracking paid and volunteer medical staff who helped administer shots.
With thousands of health care workers and volunteers deployed to administer vaccines, the state needed a scalable solution to register, verify, and communicate with its medical professionals.
The state also needed to electronically capture the arrival, break, and departure times of their staff at over 70 state-run testing and vaccination sites in order to create an audit trail.
Many health care workers came forward, without recruitment, to volunteer for administering vaccines. The state sought help from Merit to help site health care workers get paid (for those who chose that option), and to facilitate volunteer efforts for the qualified professionals who chose to do so.
Merit supported the state emergency management agency, helping with volunteer health care workers by:
Merit supported the efforts for paid professionals by:
In the first couple of months, Merit:
When it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations, time is of the essence. Merit’s platform is pre-built and ready to go with no customization required. In this instance, Merit deployed the platform in 9 days. The platform and supportive services streamlined several processes, freeing up the state to focus on getting constituents vaccinated.
Processes that were once manual were automated by Merit’s platform, which provided more trustworthy, reliable data. Accurate time tracking ensured the state would get reimbursed by FEMA for volunteer health care professionals’ work.
Merit also provided complete, high-touch onboarding of all parties and a battle-tested marketing plan to drive education and adoption among the health care workers. This included a suite of training manuals, videos, campaigns, emails, online support, and a dedicated, 24/7, multilingual customer support line.
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