Accreditation Preparation & Quality Improvement

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	In fall 2011, the CDC Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support (OSTLTS) provided funding to NACCHO for two support initiatives to promote accreditation readiness activities in health departments. These initiatives are intended to stimulate quality improvement and progress in seeking voluntary national accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Project activities include efforts to meet the identified PHAB pre-requisites, compliance toward PHAB standards and measures, and support payment of accreditation fees (limited to 50 percent). The project period for both initiatives is November 2011 through May 2012. These two initiatives, which total less than $1 million, demonstrate how small amounts of funding can be of great interest and value to health departments in their accreditation readiness efforts. More »

Accreditation Preparation

PHAB administers the voluntary national accreditation program for state, local, territorial, and tribal health departments.

NACCHO provides tools, resources, and training opportunities to local health departments (LHDs) to assist in their preparation for accreditation.

The Accreditation Preparation page includes resources organized by stages of the preparation process.

The Accreditation Preparation: CHA and CHIP Prerequisites page features information about community health assessment and community health improvement planning. NACCHO, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is funding 12 LHD demonstration sites to engage in a robust community health improvement process.

Quality Improvement

PHAB's accreditation program is grounded in quality improvement (QI). NACCHO offers resources for health departments as they work to build cultures of continuous QI and prepare for national public health department accreditation. Whether your agency has just begun to incorporate QI principles, or the QI activities are more formal, NACCHO has tools to help.

National Public health Improvement Initiative

Local and State Health Departments funded under the Affordable Care Act, National Public Health Improvement and Capacity Building Initiatives will receive direct Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) and support in the form of TA, training, tools, resources, and support that will enhance health department capacity to improve internal practices, increase efficiencies and develop and support new infrastructure and systems to increase their effectiveness and efficiency, subsequently enhancing the public health infrastructure and improving health.
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Please contact Jessica Solomon Fisher with any questions at jfisher@naccho.org or 202-507-4265.