Expertise to Help Your Organization Implement its Opioid Initiatives
Posted in: Community Development, Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, TRAIN, and Workforce Development
June 26, 2018
The Public Health Foundation (PHF) specializes in solving complex challenges by facilitating partnerships and assisting health departments, hospitals, health systems, and other community stakeholders with proven performance improvement methodologies, tools, and experience. This expertise may help you...
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Laying the Foundation: Nursing & the Public Health Foundation
Posted in: Infrastructure, PHF News, and Workforce Development
June 4, 2018
Sashani Simpson, RN, BSN is a Master’s degree candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. She has practiced nursing for more than nine years at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Did you know that nursing is the most trusted profession in the court of public opinion, 16 years run...
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Blasting Off: Achieving Team Success Using Quality Improvement Tools
Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Strategic Planning
August 25, 2017
“Houston, we have a problem.” The story of the Apollo 13 mission stands as a shining example of a high-functioning and effective team, one that brought a damaged spacecraft, and its astronauts, home safely. But what should you do when your quality improvement (QI) team is stuck on the launch pad or...
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What Does it Take to Be a Performance Improvement Professional?
Posted in: Council on Linkages, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, and Workforce Development
February 14, 2017
Julie Sharp, Performance Improvement Specialist, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Public Health Foundation Since 2001, the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals have inspired the development of a number of discipline-specific competency sets, including Competencies for App...
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Using Evidence-Based Strategies to Increase Employee Cancer Screening Rates
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
November 13, 2012
Anna Notier is the Cancer Policy Consultant for the Michigan Department of Community Health Cancer Prevention and Control Section. She also serves as staff support for the Michigan Cancer Consortium.
In public health, we continuously strive to identify and successfully implement best practices to ...
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