Online Program

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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. The session 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 and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This session addresses a gap in the current knowledge about the impact of public health department accreditation. During this session, panelists will describe PHAB’s approach to internal and external evaluation of national accreditation; discuss early findings from PHAB’s evaluation initiatives; discuss the relationship between PHAB’s early impact findings and performance management; and, relate PHAB’s findings to other national accreditation readiness and quality improvement initiatives

Session Objectives: . At the end of the session, participants will be able to: • Describe PHAB’s approach to internal and external evaluation of national accreditation • Discuss early findings from PHAB’s evaluation initiatives • Discuss the relationship between PHAB’s early impact findings and performance management • Relate PHAB’s findings to other national accreditation readiness and quality improvement initiatives

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)