DCHD Handbook
This document outlines expectations for employee conduct and workplace behavior.
What is the DCHD Employee Handbook?
What is DeKalb County?
This document governs wages, benefits, and working conditions for union employees.
What is the Collective Bargaining Agreement? (Also acceptable, CBA).
This board provides governance and oversight for the Health Department.
What is the Board of Health?
These two words are used to describe death and disability.
What is Mortality and Morbidity?
This officer oversees privacy compliance and HIPAA-related concerns at DCHD.
This type of leave may be used when an employee is unable to work due to illness.
What is sick leave?
This process outlined in the CBA allows employees to formally challenge contract violations.
What is the grievance procedure?
This year was the year DCHD was established.
What is 1966?
Mosquitos in Illinois can transmit this virus.
What is West Nile Virus (WNV)?
This position is who you go to if you have any questions about the DCHD Handbook.
What is the Director of Administrative Services? (Also acceptable, Adriana Milan)
IMRF stands for this.
What is the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund?
15 hours is the limit for this accrual bank, according to the CBA.
What is Compensatory Time Off? (Also acceptable: Comp, comp time
Name all four major DCHD divisions.
What is Community Health and Prevention, Health Protection, Health Promotion and Emergency Preparedness, & Administration?
What is lead exposure? (Also acceptable: Lead)
What is ID Badges?
A resource designed to provide highly confidential and experienced help for all employees dealing with issues that affect their lives and quality of job performance.
What is the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
What is Funeral Leave?
This major planning process, occurring every 5 years, helps identify community health priorities.
What is the IPLAN?
Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs
HIPAA stands for this.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Refusal to comply with a work assignment or instruction or failing or refusing to perform assigned work will result in this.
What is the progressive discipline and/or termination?
Upon hire, you are required to sign this statement indicating that you will refrain from having any financial interest inconsistent with the County's best interest.
What is the Conflict of Interest statement?
An employee wants to use all three personal days in July. According to the policy, can they?
What is no? You may not use personal days in advance of earning them.
Employees may take one personal day during January–April, one during May–August, and one during September–December.
Personal days must be the entire workday and time used comes from your sick bank.
As a certified Local Health Department, what three (3) types of services are REQUIRED to be provided?
What is Communicable Disease Control, Environmental Health Protection, and Public Health Emergency Preparedness?
The three core functions of public health are (1) assessment, (2) policy development, and (3) THIS.
What is assurance?