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Press release
Hill County Health Department has been awarded $13,500 to support its progress in meeting the requirements of the Public Health Accreditation Board, the first and only voluntary national accreditation program for public health departments.
The Hill County Health Department is one of 23 local health departments from 20 states and three health departments from U.S. territories to receive this funding through the Accreditation Support Initiative. A total of 104 local health departments of all sizes and types, ranging from rural to urban applied for funding.
Now in its fifth year, the ASI was created in 2011 to promote national accreditation readiness among a greater number of local health departments and support their varying needs to reach accreditation. Funding for the ASI is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support and administered by the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
The Hill County Health Department received funding under the general category of progress toward establishing and monitoring a performance management system.
The department will use the award for creating a leadership team that will be formed of the managers of all programs.
Reader Comments(1)
Kim Larson writes:
The press release in its entirety was not in the paper, NACCHO provided that press release. The department will use the award for creating a leadership team that will be formed of the managers of all programs, to increase communication, education, and staff buy-in that will then create a performance management system that will be able to track the progress of our programs, and the performance standards that we have set up for each.
01/19/2016, 10:37 pm