254117 Public Health Quality: A National Framework and Criteria to Aid in Selecting Community Benefit and Community Building Activities that Improve Community Health

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: 8:50 AM

Peggy A. Honoré, DHA , Office of Public Health and Science, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
This presentation will focus on Community Benefit and Community Building activities of tax exempt hospitals and how HHS public health quality concepts can be used as criteria to aid in the identification of appropriate programs that improve community health. Illustrations are provided in the 8 IRS classifications of Community Building to the HHS Consensus Statement on Quality in Public Health, the Community Guide to Preventive Services, and Healthy People 2020.

Learning Areas:
Other professions or practice related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the Nine public health quality aims. List the Priority Areas for Improvement of Quality in Public Health. Describe how community benefit programs, including community building activities, can help ensure that the system is characterized by the public health quality aims.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I currently represent HHS on dsicussion with IRS on public ehalth quality and community building activities of tax exempt hpospitals.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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