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In September 2013, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) funded the Public Health Foundation (PHF) to develop the Population Health Driver Diagram to Increase Use of Oral Health Care in an effort to address the Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicator, “Increase the proportion...

Indiana Uses PHHS Block Grant to Build Capacity Statewide

Posted in: Infrastructure, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement

June 11, 2014

Kristin Adams, Director, Office of Public Health Policy and Performance Management, Indiana Sate Department of Health The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) has had great success utilizing the Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant to support local level initiatives including...

My Lifesaving Accreditation Tool

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, and Workforce Development

January 31, 2014

Alicia Plati, MPH, MBA is Director of Planning & Development for the Oklahoma City-County Health Department Almost nothing is exciting about preparing for accreditation. So why am I excited? Because I love finding or creating tools that are both incredibly effective and remarkably simple. Preparing...

New Funding Opportunity for Local Health Department Accreditation Preparation Support from NACCHO

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

October 30, 2013

With funding from the CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local, & Territorial Support, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently announced a funding opportunity for local health departments (LHDs) to engage in accreditation readiness activities. The 2013–2014 Accreditation...

Together We Can Use The Community Guide!

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

February 5, 2013

Mary Kushion, MSA is the Health Officer of the Central Michigan District Health Department; a six-county district health department which includes the counties of Arenac, Clare, Gladwin, Isabella, Osceola and Roscommon. It has almost been a year since the Central Michigan District Health Department...

Using Evidence-Based Strategies to Increase Employee Cancer Screening Rates

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

November 13, 2012

Anna Notier is the Cancer Policy Consultant for the Michigan Department of Community Health Cancer Prevention and Control Section. She also serves as staff support for the Michigan Cancer Consortium. In public health, we continuously strive to identify and successfully implement best practices to ...

Getting Started with Quality Improvement: Questions and Answers about the District of Columbia Department of Health Experience

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

July 27, 2012

The National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII), funded through the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the Affordable Care Act, has allowed the District of Columbia Department of Health (DC DOH) and 73 other state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to make fundamental changes...

Brenda Nickel: Revitalizing Performance Management Efforts in Kansas

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

July 13, 2012

Brenda Nickel is the Performance Management Director & Accreditation Coordinator for the Center for Performance Management at the Kansas Department of Health & Environment The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is one of many health departments in the process of revitalizing performance...

Getting Started with Quality Improvement: an Interview with Heather Reffett, Performance Improvement Manager

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

July 6, 2012

Heather Reffett is the Performance Improvement Manager at the District of Columbia Department of Health. The National Public Health Improvement Initiative, funded through the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the Affordable Care Act, has allowed the District of Columbia Department of Health (DOH)...

Creating Effective Storyboards

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

July 6, 2012

Tatiana Lin is the Senior Analyst & Strategy Team Leader for the Kansas Health Institute. What is a storyboard? For some practitioners, the concept of a storyboard continues to be mysterious and challenging. Many people associate storyboards with filmmaking, but their use goes beyond that. The...