PHF E-News: News for Public Health (September 2017)

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Date: 9/29/2017

News, resources, tools, and information on performance management, quality improvement, and workforce development to improve the quality and performance of your organization and the health of your community.

PHF E-News: News for Public Health

Local Health Departments Are Increasingly Using Quality Improvement to Improve Agency Performance

According to the National Association of County and City Health Officials' 2016 National Profile of Local Health Departments and newly released research briefs, local health departments across the United States have increased their implementation of agency-wide quality improvement (QI) over the past three years.

If your health department is beginning to use QI tools and methods, is working to institutionalize QI, or is interested in expanding and enhancing your use of QI, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) has a wide variety of practical resources, tools, and expertise to help you be successful. Learn more about how QI use has increased and the resources you can rely upon during your department's own QI journey.

The Opioid Crisis: PHF Helps You to Respond Effectively

For nearly 50 years, PHF has been helping organizations and communities identify and solve complex problems. See our population health approach to addressing the opioid crisis and access PHF's Opioid Response Planning Guide.

A Model Population Health Initiative: Reducing Costs by Going Upstream

Upcoming Webinar on October 23, 2017 at 1:30pm EDT

This webinar will highlight the winner of the 2017 Future of Population Health Award, telling the story of Harbor Place, which provides temporary transitional housing for homeless patients discharged from the University of Vermont Medical Center. The hospital recognized the need to address homelessness -- an upstream cause of repeat hospitalizations for chronic diseases. The program has significantly reduced use of hospital services and costs. Included in the webinar will be exploration of the success factors, the challenges faced, and the future expansion of this model initiative. Space is limited - register today to attend this event.

Tune Up Your Quality Improvement Efforts with New Toolkit

PHF recently launched a new toolkit, Quality Improvement Tools to Advance Public Health Performance, which contains more than 30 online PHF quality improvement (QI) tools. The tools are organized into useful categories such as leadership development, team management, strategic planning, and several others. The toolkit also includes public health examples and templates to address needs identified during PHF’s work in the field with public health and healthcare practitioners. Review this toolkit and try a new QI tool today.

Top 5 Ways the TRAIN Learning Network Builds Public Health Workforce Capacity

The TRAIN Learning Network continues to grow at an impressive rate - now serving the needs of over 1.5 million health workers – fueled by impactful partnerships with 30 TRAIN affiliates. These agencies, their staffs, and other national organizations have long recognized TRAIN as the foundational partner in building an effective and efficient workforce. Recently, a report highlighted the need to build skills for a more strategic public health workforce due to “significant transitions” taking place in governmental public health. With this as the most recent reminder of the need to build public health workforce capacity, learn about how the TRAIN Learning Network can help to address this call-to-action in your organization.

APHA 2017 Session Spotlight:

Advocating for the Public Health Workforce

November 6, 2017 from 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Join the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice for a 90-minute interactive session to hear from national leaders about how their organizations are working to demonstrate the value of the public health workforce, advocate for the public health workforce, and provide funding to support public health workforce development. Speakers include: John Auerbach, MBA, Trust for America’s Health; Ed Hunter, MA, de Beaumont Foundation; Phyllis Meadows, PhD, Kresge Foundation; and Judy Monroe, MD, CDC Foundation. Learn more about this engaging and interactive session.

Public Health Instructional Designer, Distance Learning Specialist, or Health Educator? Apply for an Exciting Learning Opportunity

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with PHF, invite distance learning educators who need to know how to develop online training products, to apply to participate in the CDC E-learning Institute Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to cultivate skills of public health training professionals with limited experience designing or developing e-learning products. Learn more about the E-learning Institute and how to apply - applications for the 2018 program are due by October 6, 2017.

In their own words: Former E-learning Institute Fellowship participants have shared their experiences with the program on the PHF Pulse blog. Read how each viewed their time in the Fellowship and the impact it had on their work in public health.

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