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Tools of the Trade
Just "PHABulous"
Defining Moments
Brain Freeze
100
Having access to care when it is needed is important in helping individuals prevent and avoid unfavorable health outcomes and medical costs.
What is Link to/Provide Care.
100
These are designed to assist teams when solving a defined problem or project to get a better understanding of a problem or process they are investigating or analyzing.
What is are Quality Improvement Tools.
100
Ensure access to laboratory and epidemiological/ environmental public health expertise and capacity to investigate and contain/mitigate public health problems and environmental public health hazards.
What is PHAB Standard 2.3.
100
Sustaining a culture of excellence which promotes health, safety and well-being for all Gila County residents.
What is The Gila County Division of Health and Emergency Management Vision Statement.
100
These guidelines serves as the official standards, measures, required documentation, and guidance blueprint for PHAB national public health department accreditation.
What are the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Standards and Measures.
200
To Inform, educate, and empower people about environmental health issues. Mobilize community partnerships and actions to identify and solve environmental health problems. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community environmental health efforts
What is Policy Development.
200
A procedure, technique, or process used to identify opportunities for improvement.
What is Quality Improvement Methods.
200
The purpose of this measure is to assess the health department’s strategy to communicate the value of its products, services, and practices to external audiences.
What is PHAB Measure 3.2.2 A.
200
The Gila County Division of Health and Emergency Management strives to advocate, educate, improve and monitor the public health and safety of Gila County, by providing the highest level of quality, integrity and respect to those we serve.
What is The Gila County Division of Health and Emergency Management Mission Statement.
200
To ensure a systematic organization for all agency policies and procedures and an efficient and organized system for updating and maintaining policy manuals.
What is HEM-001 Policy & Procedures - format, organization, and distribution.
300
The science and art of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases.
What is Public Health.
300
A four-stage problem-solving model for improving a process or carrying out change.
What is Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA).
300
The purpose of this measure is to assess the health department’s ability to provide information to the public during a public health emergency.
What is PHAB Measure 2.4.3 A.
300
Identifies specific areas of current operational performance for improvement within the agency.
What is the Quality Improvement Plan.
300
A systematic examination of the health status indicators for a given population that is used to identify key problems and assets in a community.
What is a Community Health Assessment.
400
Assessment, Policy Development, and Assurance.
What are the three (3) core functions of public health.
400
A method for organizing the information and data in a more useful and instructive way.
What is an Affinity Diagram.
400
Maintain an all hazards emergency operations plan.
What is PHAB Standard 5.4.
400
This document serves to address the documentation requirement for Accreditation Standard 8.2.1: Maintain, implement and assess the health department workforce development plan that addresses the training needs of the staff and the development of core competencies.
What is the Workforce Development Plan.
400
An organized way of documenting and showcasing the quality improvement process conducted by a team that is working systematically to resolve a specific problem and/or improve a given process.
What is Quality Improvement (QI) Storyboarding.
500
Health care workers and staff who are competent (i.e., skilled in the core principles of public health practice) are more likely to provide care and other services more effectively and efficiently compared to those who are not.
What is Assure Competent Workforce.
500
This allows a team to identify, explore, and graphically display detail of potential causes related to a problem in order to discover its root cause.
What is a Fishbone Diagram or Root Cause Analysis.
500
Provide information on public health issues and public health functions through multiple methods to a variety of audiences.
What is PHAB Standard 3.2
500
This is a systematic process aimed at helping achieve an organization’s mission and strategic goals by improving effectiveness, empowering employees, and streamlining the decision-making process.
What is Performance Management.
500
A long-term, systematic effort to address public health problems on the basis of the results of community health assessment activities and the community health improvement process.
What is a Community Health Improvement Plan.
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