Applying Performance Measurement to Public Health Policy Activities
August 7, 2012
The Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) have worked collaboratively to develop a new tool to help health departments assess and improve the performance of their policy activities. While other performance measurement and evaluation guides exist, this is...
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Strategic Practice Selection Exercise
June 29, 2012
The Strategic Practice Selection Exercise is a data driven decision making exercise to show how health departments can use a strategic practice selection process to assess the availability, affordability, accessibility, and utility of potential interventions. The priority areas selected for this exercise...
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Quality Improvement Transforms Knox County Tennessee
November 17, 2011
Knox County Health Department in Tennessee began using Quality Improvement (QI) tools and techniques to address asthma management in their local community. At the conclusion of an asthma management demonstration project, funded by AstraZeneca, Knox County administrators wanted to integrate QI into...
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Improving the Planning and Performance Measurement Reporting System
June 27, 2011
The goal of this rapid cycle improvement (RCI) project was to streamline the reporting process of the Minnesota Planning and Performance Measurement Reporting System to improve the content and quality of the data submitted and add more value for state and local stakeholders. RCI PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act)...
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A Lean Day in the Tulsa Health Department White Paper
April 13, 2011
With assistance from PHF, the Tulsa Health Department Quality Improvement Council (QIC) conducted a Lean event in three of its facilities with the objective of beautification of the environment and creating efficiency for the customer. Lean is a process management philosophy that helps optimize the...
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Sedgwick County Health Department Storyboard - Lab Test Reporting Accuracy
April 4, 2011
The Quality Improvement (QI) Committee at the Sedgwick County Health Department (SCHD) in Kansas identified lab test reporting accuracy as one of the eight improvement areas to address in an effort to develop a culture of QI at the agency.
SCHD lab personnel noticed for some time that the totals...
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Sedgwick County Health Department Storyboard - New Employee Orientation
April 4, 2011
The Quality Improvement Committee at the Sedgwick County Health Department (SCHD) in Kansas identified revising the New Employee Orientation as one of the eight improvement areas to address in an effort to develop a culture of QI at the agency.
AIM Statement
By December 1, 2010, 90% of SCHD sup...
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Team Process Review Checklist
September 13, 2010
The Team Process Review Checklist covers the essential items that need to be in place for launching a team. It is designed to give the team sponsor and team leader a list of essential items that need to be considered at the startup of a team and during the team’s life cycle. The team leader and sponsor...
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Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project
September 10, 2010
In 2001, PHF assisted the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the development of the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project, which provides easily accessible information on evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives. By clicking on specific search strategies,...
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Livingston County Department of Health, NY - Using the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals to Improve Performance
September 2, 2010
As part of a Quality Improvement (QI) initiative, Livingston County Department of Health in New York has used the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals in two ways: 1) to improve its performance appraisal form; and, 2) to conduct a workforce needs assessment. Download this document to learn how...
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