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Early Accreditation Impact Findings and Performance Management

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Les Beitsch, MD, JD , Center for Medicine/Public Health, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accredited its first health departments in February 2013. Now there are more than 200 health departments voluntarily going through the process. As a learning organization, PHAB incorporated a multi-faceted evaluation plan into its work from the beginning as a means to improve its own services to health department applicants and site visitor volunteers and also to begin to respond to questions about the impact of accreditation. During this part of  PHAB’s approach to internal and external evaluation of national accreditation, the relationship between PHAB’s early impact findings and performance management will be dicsussed in detail.Specific examples will be highlighted.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Administration, management, leadership
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related research
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the relationship between PHAB’s early accreditation impact findings and performance management as they relate to health departments.

Keyword(s): Accreditation, Quality Improvement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am currently the Chair of the Public Health Accreditation Board of Directors. I also have several years experience in teaching and facilitating performance management strategies and quality improvement initiatives in public health. I have published several articles on the subject and teach this material across the country.
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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