The Reporting Duty Is the Practical Driver
Since July 2024, staff of BC health authorities have been required to report their influenza immune status. That is a reporting obligation, not a vaccination mandate - nobody is compelled to be immunized. But it does mean every facility now has a record to collect, and collecting it is far simpler when the vaccine was offered on site and the participation record already exists.
The clinical case is more direct. Influenza moves through a long-term care home faster than almost any other setting, and the people it reaches are the least able to withstand it. An outbreak closes admissions, pulls staff into isolation protocols and occupies your leadership for weeks.
Your staff are also the hardest group in the province to get to a pharmacy. They work nights, they work rotations across multiple sites, and their own health is reliably the last thing they schedule.
You are not paying for vaccine. We supply influenza vaccine through Fraser Health, so the publicly funded dose your staff would receive at a pharmacy is the dose they receive from us. What you pay for is the nurses, the cold chain and the logistics of bringing it onto every shift - which is the part that decides whether people actually get immunized.
We already work in BC healthcare, including a regional hospital, and we run respirator fit testing for healthcare and long-term care.