Spotlight on Quality
Improvement and Accreditation - Original Date:
March 22, 2007

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March
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improvement and workforce development in public health. We
provide relevant resources, drawing from public health,
healthcare, government, and business to assure and improve your
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In this issue
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Spotlight
on Quality Improvement and Accreditation |
Designing Voluntary Accreditation Programs for
Quality Improvement:
A checklist of strategies to put improvement first
If voluntary accreditation programs are going to drive
quality improvement in the public health field, they
will need more than a clipboard. But what might a QI-focused
accreditation program look like? As food for thought,
PHF offers this <Retired Link> [For more current information, visit http://www.phf.org/Accreditation-QI-Strategies.pdf] that may help voluntary
accreditation programs support improvement before,
during, and after accreditation. Intended for leaders
involved in the design or evaluation of public health
accreditation programs, this tool aims to help leaders
explore potential QI elements of such programs.
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Tools and Resources |
- Pre-order the new
Public Health Memory Jogger(TM) II .
Adapted from the best selling pocket guide to over
20 quality improvement tools, the Memory Jogger
(TM) II, this handy reference was made
expressly for public health professionals.
- A new
performance management training DVD is a great
tool for introducing anyone from staff to
stakeholders to performance management and quality
improvement basics.
- Find more easy-to-use
quality improvement tools that your team can
apply to analyze problems and find solutions.
- Get information and ideas to
improve on Essential Public Health Services by
using our powerful new resources database brought to
you by the National Public Health Performance
Standards Program.
- Learn how one public health department turned
around a spike in syphilis and retained qualified
workers by using quality improvement techniques with
assistance from PHF. View their
storyboard.
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Events |
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2007 Public Health Congress to focus on
public-private sector partnerships. <Retired link> [For more current information,
visit www.worldcongress.com/events/HL08001/].
July 16-18, 2007 – Washington, DC
Do not miss this exclusive chance to network with
top executives in government, public health,
hospitals, and private industry in this event
designed to promote best practices and collaboration
on preparedness, prevention, and infectious disease
control. Co-sponsored by World Congress and The Wall
Street Journal in partnership with PHF and many
other public health organizations.
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Global Health Summit II to focus on health
diplomacy.
June 3, 2007 – Cincinnati, OH
Sponsored by the Public Health Service Commissioned
Officers Foundation, this summit will examine
effective strategies to enhance the quality of the
public heath workforce by increasing the capacity of
health professionals, the uniformed services,
academia, the media, opinion makers and
parliamentarians to serve as agents of health
diplomacy. The Summit is open to anyone involved in
public health or who has an interest in global
health.
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