Eleven Health Departments Achieve National Accreditation

The national accreditation program sets more than two dozen standards of quality and performance that focus on the best and most efficient ways to help people stay healthy.

Building Better Health Departments

The Long Road to Recognition

Getting to accreditation is challenging. Among other requirements, health departments need to take part in training from the Public Health Accreditation Board, provide extensive documentation, and undergo a site visit.

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Terry Cline Oklahoma State Health Commissioner

"I Was a Believer From the Beginning"

Oklahoma Health Commissioner Terry Cline explains what accreditation means for his state, and beyond.

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Continuous Improvement in Public Health

Public health departments play a critical role in our everyday lives, but until recently there was no nationwide system to ensure their quality and accountability. Accreditation establishes rigorous, measurable standards, challenges health departments to meet them, and recognizes those who do.

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Accreditation: A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Georgia Heise

Tools and Resources to Help Prepare for Accreditation

Through national accreditation, public health agencies of all sizes, in all locations, will gain new abilities to assess performance and dem...

Estimating the Financial Resources Needed for Local Public Health Departments in Minnesota

This study sought to quantify the gap between current public health spending and adequate public health spending in Minnesota and can serve ...

Recommendations: What Should a National Public Health Accreditation System Look Like?

RWJF and the CDC sponsor the development of a model voluntary national accreditation program for state, local, territorial and tribal public...

Local Public Health Departments Achieve Consensus of What They Should be Doing

The National Association of County and City Health Officials developed a common operational definition of a local health department that ref...

Ready, Set, Go

Health agencies seeking accreditation must complete three requirements.

Improving Knowledge of Public Health Accreditation Through a Group Vetting Session of a Practice-Based Research Network

In efforts to improve knowledge of a new accreditation process for local health departments, local officials found a "group vetting session"...

Creating a Special License for Long-Term-Care Providers with Supportive Workplaces

North Carolina Foundation for Advanced Health Programs created a voluntary, special state license to recognize long-term-care providers who ...

Special Report: Exploring Accreditation of Public Health Departments

Developing an accreditation system to encourage public health departments to measure their performance against national standards.

National Profile of Local Health Departments, 2008

Conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the purpose of this survey of local health departments (...

Multistate Learning Collaborative: A Mid-Course Report

Selected states with experience in public health assessment, accreditation and quality improvement continued this work and share their exper...

Accreditation and Quality Improvement

Multi-State Learning Collaborative holds last national meeting before the launch of public health accreditation in 2011.

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Accreditation

A Big First for Public Health