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A conversation with Kathleen C. Brown, PhD, MPH, Director of Community Assessment and Health Promotion at the Knox County Health Department (KCHD) in Knoxville, Tennessee What challenges does Knoxville have related to asthma?One of the greatest challenges with asthma management is that even the...

Mike Rudis: The Value of a Team Charter

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

November 11, 2011

Mike Rudis, Training Administrator, Office of Performance Management, Delaware Division of Public Health A team charter is the official document from a team sponsor that empowers the team to act. The Delaware Division of Public Health Process Action Team has used a charter, which describes the mission...

Quality Improvement Is Not Just For Problems: Success and Effect Diagram

Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Jack Moran

June 24, 2011

Quality Improvement tools and techniques have been used extensively for solving problems in organizations. The authors1 of Quality Improvement Is Not Just For Problems: Success and Effect Diagram propose using those same methods to analyze successful processes. Understanding successful process...

Kaye Bender: What is the relationship between accreditation and quality improvement in public health?

Posted in: Infrastructure, and Performance Management and Quality Improvement

December 28, 2010

Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN, President and CEO, Public Health Accreditation BoardPHAB is using the definition of quality improvement in public health that was developed by the Accreditation Coalition and published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (January/February, 2010). Specifi...

Top 10 Problems Encountered By Quality Improvement Teams

Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvementby Jack Moran

December 7, 2010

Over the past few years, I have been involved in training and facilitating many quality improvement (QI) teams in public health and have noted the following major problems that they have encountered: 1. AIM Statement - This important goal statement was often too large; the scope of the initial...

Joan Miles: PHF's New Vision

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

November 10, 2010

Healthy Practices. Healthy People. Healthy Places. You may ask, what’s behind the Public Health Foundation’s new Vision Statement. What does “Healthy Practices” mean and what does this have to do with PHF?This past summer, I was pleased to be engaged with the PHF Board of Directors and staff as we r...