Getting the Community Health Improvement Plan Off the Shelf and Into Practice
May 1, 2017
A community health improvement plan (CHIP) identifies actions that can be taken to improve the community’s health. This is an important step, but many communities find themselves challenged to move from the CHIP to action. In this white paper from Public Health Foundation (PHF), authors Senior Quality...
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Myths that Fuel Resistance to Public Health and Hospital Collaboration
May 10, 2016
Assumptions and mistrust can prevent hospitals and health departments from boldly and effectively collaborating to address community health problems. This article, written by Public Health Foundation (PHF) team members Margie Beaudry and Jack Moran, and hospital community benefit practitioners Jayne...
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IOM Discussion Paper: Using a Population Health Driver Diagram to Support Health Care and Public Health Collaboration
April 3, 2015
This Public Health Foundation (PHF) discussion paper, "Using a Population Health Driver Diagram to Support Health Care and Public Health Collaboration," was published by the Health and Medicine Division (previously known as the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,...
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The Quality of a Quality Improvement Project
October 23, 2014
Checklists can help project sponsors know when a QI project is worth doing, and when it has been done well. This brief paper by PHF quality experts Erin Barkema and Jack Moran provides a simple approach to help sponsors select QI projects and shepherd them to success.
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Performance Management and Cultural Transformation Using the PDCA Approach
September 17, 2013
This paper describes how to make a Performance
Management system the central nervous system of an organization. It provides
operational intelligence on a real-time basis, indicating performance relative
to goals, effectiveness and efficiency of programs and services, performance of
processes,...
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AI Can be a Useful Quality Improvement Team Member
The Public Health Foundation (PHF) continues to explore innovative approaches to enhance the quality improvement (QI) efforts of health departments. In the paper, AI Can Be a Useful Quality Improvement Team Member, we examine how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support QI teams by generating...
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