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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Accreditation Success in Idaho's North Central District Health Department
Posted in: Strategic Planning, TRAIN, and Workforce Development
January 24, 2018
The process of approaching and applying for Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation can be daunting. There is a plethora of planning, preparation, and documentation that must take place throughout the process. The Idaho North Central District Health Department, accredited in March 2016...
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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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My Lifesaving Accreditation Tool
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement, Strategic Planning, and Workforce Development
January 31, 2014
Alicia Plati, MPH, MBA is Director of Planning & Development for the Oklahoma City-County Health Department
Almost nothing is exciting about preparing for accreditation. So why am I excited? Because I love finding or creating tools that are both incredibly effective and remarkably simple.
Preparing...
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Quality Improvement Is Not Just For Problems: Success and Effect Diagram
Posted in: Infrastructure, Performance Management and Quality Improvement, and Workforce Developmentby Jack Moran
June 24, 2011
Quality Improvement tools and techniques have been used extensively for solving problems in organizations. The authors1 of Quality Improvement Is Not Just For Problems: Success and Effect Diagram propose using those same methods to analyze successful processes. Understanding successful process...
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