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Has Public Health embraced effective cost reduction techniques from the business environment?
NACCHO has conducted a series of surveys of local health departments nationwide to determine the impact of the economic recession on LHD's jobs, programs and budgets. The results of these surveys show that LHDs have experienced cuts to core funding resulting in job loss and negative impacts to essential public health services. LHD leaders are experiencing the difficulty of balancing ever expanding needs for all public health services with the reduction in funding which provides for those services. The business environment literature has extensive information on techniques used by both non-profit and for profit industries to reduce costs and balance revenue and expenses. This session will highlight several of these techniques which include outsourcing/contracting, creative methods for staffing and benefits, supply chain methodology, administrative policies and the use of quality improvement tools for cost reduction. The session will also provide the results of a survey of all Kentucky local health departments with regard to the acceptance and current use of these effective cost reduction techniques.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Program planning
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Learning Objectives: Identify cost reduction techniques used effectively outside the public health sector.
Describe cost reduction techniques used effectively outside the public health sector.
Describe the acceptance and use of business environment cost reduction techniques within the local health departments of Kentucky.
Describe how LHD leaders can embrace and implement cost reduction techniques used in other industries.
Keywords: Cost-Effectiveness, Management
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Angela Carman, DrPH, MBA, CHE, PHR is a former critical-access hospital administrator in Kentucky. She received a BS degree in Business Administration at Berea College and a Master’s in Business Administration at Eastern Kentucky University. She completed her DrPH in 2012 at the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health and has published in the areas of hospital and LHD collaboration. Angela has over 20 years experience in management and cost reduction in non-profit organizations.
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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