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Accreditation at the State & Local Level
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
: 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Bryan Buckley, MPH
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Keystone Center for Patient Safety & Quality, Michigan Health & Hospital Association Patient Safety Organization, Okemos, MI
In 1998 Michigan began a state-specific accreditation process. This long-standing collaborative effort involves the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI), the State of Michigan Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Community Health and Environmental Quality, the Michigan Association of Local Public Health (MALPH) and Michigan’s local health departments. To build upon the success with the Michigan-specific accreditation process, the Michigan Department of Community Health (state health department) supports local and tribal readiness to participate in national accreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board Program (PHAB). The Michigan Public Health Association (MPHA) worked collaboratively with the project partners to offer free peer-to-peer sharing through live/recorded webinars, to all interested Michigan local health departments and other constituents. These activities included three peer-led discussions on the benefits of and lessons learned from those participating in national accreditation. Each hour long webinar, including the following topics: PHAB Accreditation Prerequisites; Quality Improvement and Performance Management; and Workforce Development. As many local health departments plan to participate in PHAB in the next four years, we concurrently viewed this utility as a mechanism to further build capacity and also in developing a portal for mentorship of best practices for those seeking national accreditation in the future. These activities will establish a replicable process by which education, materials and resources can be shared among local health departments related to the national accreditation process across the nation.
Learning Areas:
Other professions or practice related to public health
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Describe the establishment of a learning community for local health departments and tribal agency representatives to support national accreditation.
List at least two lessons learned practices/strategies from local health departments in the preparation of PHAB accreditation.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Project Manager for the MHA Patient Safety Organization. I am responsible for the facilitation of multiple patient safety and quality improvement efforts and have applied a variety of improvement methodologies and group management techniques to support healthcare facilities through process improvement initiatives. I have worked in the field of Epidemiology for the past 3 years and has been actively involved with Michigan Public Health Association (MPHA) and the events they have hosted.
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.
