Congratulations go out to the people who work at and manage the Ada B. Vielmetti Health Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University.

That’s because the organization was recently designated a “Site of Excellence” by the Michigan Care Improvement Registry, thanks to the health center’s use of the MCIR to keep centralized, up-to-date immunization records for patients and students.

Created in 1998 as the Michigan Childhood Immunization Registry and expanded to include adults in 2006, MCIR seeks to collect reliable immunization information and make it accessible to authorized users online.

Children born in Michigan from 1994 to the present, as well as some people born before 1994, have been included in the registry, and adults continue to be added. Collecting this information and consolidating records of immunization from multiple providers across the state in a centralized database benefits health care organizations, schools, licensed child-care programs and Michigan’s citizens, by allowing health care providers to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases and over-vaccination, as well as see up-to-date patient immunization history.

The NMU Health Center has been keeping electronic records using MCIR for more than two years, contributing to positive health outcomes.