Public Health Action Needed on Alzheimer's Disease
Posted in: Workforce Development
September 19, 2022
Natalia Babenko, Public Health Foundation Internand MPH Candidate at the University of South FloridaThe COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected mortality from Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Over the first year of the pandemic, the U.S. faced a 15% increase in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease...
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Performance Improvement Competencies to Be Featured at 2020 Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation
Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
February 24, 2020
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
The Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health (PI Competencies) will be featured at the Open Forum for Quality Improvement and Innovation (Open Forum) this March in Kansas Cit...
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Performance Improvement Professionals Identify High Priority Areas for Workforce Development
Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, TRAIN, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
July 18, 2019
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
Nearly 70 performance improvement (PI) professionals working in health departments and other public health organizations across the country came together last month to discuss and identify high priority...
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Momentum Building Among Public Health Professionals Around the Performance Improvement Competencies
Posted in: Conferences and Events, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
June 10, 2019
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
If you are working in a performance improvement (PI) position within public health, the Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health (PI Competencies) are designed specifically...
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PHF Launches Two New Services to Help Health Departments Maximize Clinical Service Delivery Program Funding
Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, and Workforce Development
August 16, 2018
Delivery team will be led by former nurse and hospital administrator
Each month, experts from the Public Health Foundation (PHF) are in the field working with health departments and hear feedback about pressing needs for technical assistance and training. Recent comments from state nursing directors,...
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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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Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals in Public Health Now Available
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
June 21, 2018
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health FoundationDoes your work involve activities in the areas of quality improvement, performance management, workforce development, accreditation, or community health assessment and improvement? Are you actively engaged in supp...
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Special Supplement to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice Highlights the Impact of Public Health Accreditation
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Development
June 4, 2018
With nearly 70% of the U.S. population now served by a public health agency accredited through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), it is crucial to highlight and discuss the progress made through this program and how it has led to the increased quality and performance of public health practice....
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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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Feedback Needed to Help Shape Competencies for Performance Improvement Professionals
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Kathleen Amos
January 17, 2018
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health FoundationDoes your work involve activities in the areas of quality improvement, performance management, workforce development, accreditation, or community health assessment and improvement? Are you actively engaged...
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