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Accreditation Readiness and NPHII

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Liza Corso, MPA , Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
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. This session will provide early findings and results from the initial internal and external evaluations, as well as some of the impact stories from accredited health departments. My part of the panel will also provide information about the connection between PHAB’s accreditation impact results and results and data from related accreditation readiness initiatives sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Program planning
Public health administration or related administration

Learning Objectives:
Compare PHAB’s findings to other national accreditation readiness and quality improvement initiatives, such as the National Public Health Improvement Initiative.

Keyword(s): Accreditation, Accountability

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Senior Advisor for Public Health Practice and Accreditation, Division of Public Health Performance Improvement, Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In that capacity, I have advised both the accreditation initiatives and the accreditation readiness initiatives funded by the CDC. CDC now has early evaluation results from the National Public Health Improvement Initiative.
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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