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Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Population Health Driver Diagram Used by Columbia School of Nursing Keep Your Health Department's Engine Running Smoothly with a QI Tune-up 2016 TAC Annual Meeting Will be Held in Lawrence, Kansas Mark Your Ca...

Population Health Driver Diagram Used by Columbia School of Nursing

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, and Workforce Development

February 5, 2016

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN the Dean and Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing and the Senior Vice President of Columbia University Medical Center introduced the Population Health Driver Diagram to the next generation of nurse practitioners as a way to integrate clinical and primary...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (January 2016)

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Council on Linkages, Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

January 29, 2016

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship Tools and Resources among Health Departments Understanding Changes to the Accreditation Process Developing, Sustaining, and Expanding Academic Health Departments Participants Selecte...

Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship Tools and Resources among Health Departments

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

December 23, 2015

Each year in the United States, antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect 2 million peoplei. To help address this issue, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) is working with the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (December 2015)

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

December 15, 2015

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Improving Vector Control Using a Population Health Driver Diagram An Astronaut Did It in Space: It's Time for You to Do It Here A Tale of Three Cities on the Journey to Accreditation Help Build the Next TRAIN L...

Harnessing the Power of QI: A New Performance Management Perspective

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and PHF News

December 11, 2015

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) is sharing a new quality improvement resource, Utilizing Performance Management to Harness the Power of Quality Improvement in Public Health. This white paper, authored by PHF Performance Improvement Expert Les Beitsch, Valerie Yeager, and PHF Senior Quality Advisor...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (November 2015)

Posted in: Council on Linkages, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

November 18, 2015

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue TRAIN Reaches Million Learner Milestone How Do We Ensure an Effective Public Health Workforce into the Future? Now Available: Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, 13th Edition "The Pi...

Improving Vector Control Using a Population Health Driver Diagram

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

November 13, 2015

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are collaborating on a project to use the Vector Control Population Health Driver Diagram as a framework for developing and implementing quality improvement (QI) interventions within five different vector control...

PHF E-News: News for Public Health (October 2015)

Posted in: Conferences and Events, Council on Linkages, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, PHF News, TRAIN, and Workforce Development

October 6, 2015

Public Health Foundation E-News News for Public Health In This Issue Frederick County, MD Becomes TRAIN's First Local Health Department Affiliate Improving Community Health: How Organizations and Communities are Using Population Health Driver Diagrams Hear from Public Health Workfor...

Improving Community Health: How Organizations and Communities are Using Population Health Driver Diagrams

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

September 21, 2015

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) has been working with communities using population health driver diagrams to address a variety of community health challenges. Development and use of population health driver diagrams continues to expand as communities understand the value the framework offers. A population...