274626 Community Health Improvement Tools and Support from NACCHO

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Lowrie Ward , Program Analyst, Accreditation Preparation and Quality Improvement, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Washington, DC
Accreditation and the IRS Community Benefit requirement have increased interest among local health departments in developing comprehensive community health assessments (CHAs) and community health improvement plans (CHIPs), already a core component of local health department practice. NACCHO will provide information on common CHIP practices in LHDs across the country, discuss how existing partnerships can be leveraged and describe tools and resources for use in CHIP development and implementation.

Learning Areas:
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1) Discuss resources available from NACCHO for community health improvement planning

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I direct NACCHO’s Accreditation Preparation and Quality Improvement efforts and have done so for several years. I have experience working with local health departments on community health assessment and improvement planning and in providing training and otherwise speaking on the topic. I have national level knowledge of work in this area.
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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