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ACCREDITATION AT DISTRICT 4

Spalding CollaborativeMolli Pruitt & Dr. David AjayiFebruary 10, 2016

• The goal of the voluntary national accreditation program is to improve and protect the health of the public by advancing and ultimately transforming the quality and performance of public health departments.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACCREDITATION BOARD (PHAB)

Type of Health Department

Accreditated

In Process Total in e-PHAB

Local 70 158 228State 9 23 32Tribal - 3 3Single Accreditation for multiple Health Departments

- 67 67

Multijurisdictional

- 8 8

All 79 259 338

ACCREDITATION (SNAPSHOT)

WHY ACCREDITATION? Stimulates Quality improvement and Performance

improvement opportunities within the Health District (HD)

Improves HD’s competitiveness for funding opportunities

Improves management processes used by HD leadership

Stimulates greater accountability and transparency within HD

Helps HD document capacity to deliver 10 Essential Public Health Services

Allows HD to better identify strengths and weaknesses Improves HD’s accountability to external stakeholders

• Board of Health Members• County Health Departments • District Office• Stakeholders from the local

community

WHO IS INVOLVED?

MOBILIZING FOR ACTION THROUGH PLANNING & PARTNERSHIP

Identifies priority community health and quality of life issues.

“How healthy are our residents?”

What does the health Status of our community look like?”

COMMUNITY HEALTH STATUS ASSESSMENT

Deep understanding of the issues residents feel .

“What is important to our community?”

“How is quality of life perceived in our community?”

“What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health?”

COMMUNITY THEMES AND STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT

Focuses on the identification of forces such as legislation, technology, and other impending changes that affect the context in which the community and its public health system operates. “What is occurring or might occur that affects the health of our community or the local public health system?”

“What specific threats or opportunities are generated by these occurrences?”

FORCES OF CHANGE ASSESSMENT

Includes all of the organizations and entities that contribute to the public’s health.

“What are the activities, competencies, and capacities of our local public health system?”

“How are the 10 Essential Public Health Services being provided to our community?”

LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM ASSESSMENT

TEN ESSENTIALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

COMMUNITY ROADMAP