Accreditation and QI, Missouri

The Missouri Voluntary Accreditation Program of Local Public Health Agencies (LPHAs) is administered by the Missouri Institute for Community Health, a nonprofit agency that publishes the accreditation standards.

The goals of the Accreditation Program are threefold:

1. To serve as a measure of accountability;
2. To provide state and local officials a model of capacity; and
3. To encourage Missouri's LPHAs to maintain current public health practices and science.

Missouri also participates in the Multi-State Learning Collaborative (MLC) project, which assesses quality improvement strategies to enhance the work of public health departments.