Taking the Pulse of Your Team
Just like humans, teams need regular checkups to ensure that they are healthy and performing effectively. Regular checkups will catch deviations from normal performance and enable a corrective course of action. This article presents two diagnostic instruments to help the team facilitator or team coach...
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A Model Population Health Initiative: Reducing Costs by Going Upstream
Answers to questions submitted during and after the October 23, 2017 webinar appear below. Responses Answers were provided by presenters Stephen Leffler and Penrose Jackson from the University of Vermont Medical Center.
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Guide to the Stages of Performance Management
This guide provides a
framework for noticing and assessing agency characteristics and then taking
action to enable the transition to the next stage of performance management practice. This
guide addresses selecting standards, measuring and determining the status
of standards, reporting...
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A Model Population Health Initiative: Reducing Costs by Going Upstream (Webinar Archive)
The archived webinar highlights the the winner of the 2017 Future of Population Health Award, telling the story of Harbor Place, which provides temporary transitional housing for homeless patients discharged from the University of Vermont Medical Center. The webinar included exploration of the success...
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CDC Quality Training Standards Training Developer Checklist
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established eight science-based standards to provide measures for and guide the development of high quality public health training products. Trainings developed or funded by CDC that meet all eight standards are considered quality training products,...
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The Genie is Out of the Bottle: From "little qi" to "Big QI"
The myth of Aladdin conjures images of a bumpy yet thrilling carpet ride; for some, launching quality improvement (QI) efforts is a similar experience. In Chester County, PA, the health department began its QI journey in much the same way as other health departments: while preparing for voluntary public...
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Safety First: Helping Restaurants Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 (Online Training)
Health departments have an important role to play in helping restaurants keep their staff and patrons safe. To support health departments in providing guidance to restaurants, the Public Health Foundation (PHF), in partnership with the Food and Society Program at the Aspen Institute launched...
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AHD Webinar Series: How Academic Health Department Partnerships Support Recruitment and Retention (Archived Webinar)
Academic health department (AHD) partnerships – formal partnerships between health departments and academic institutions – have the potential to enhance the capacity of the organizations involved and offer a variety of benefits, such as increased health department capacity, placements for students,...
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Quality Improvement Graphic Tools To Help Us Understand Data
To achieve measurable improvements, we must have a systematic and continuous process of measuring and assessing the performance and outcomes of our products and services. To make improvements, it is essential for a health department to have a robust Performance Management System that collects...
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Turning Point Framework Self-Assessment - State or Local
This self-assessment tool will help identify the extent to which an agency has the necessary components in place to achieve results and continually improve performance. This self-assessment tool is a guide that was designed to be completed as a group and can be adapted to fit an organization...
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