PMID- 29084122
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191108
LR  - 20191108
IS  - 1550-5022 (Electronic)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Print)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 4
DP  - 2018 Jul/Aug
TI  - Achieving Public Health Standards and Increasing Accreditation Readiness: 
      Findings From the National Public Health Improvement Initiative.
PG  - 392-399
LID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000660 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: During 2010-2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
      implemented the National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII) to assist 
      73 public health agencies in conducting activities to increase accreditation 
      readiness, improve efficiency and effectiveness through quality improvement, and 
      increase performance management capacity. A summative evaluation of NPHII was 
      conducted to examine whether awardees met the initiative's objectives, including 
      increasing readiness for accreditation. DESIGN: A nonexperimental, 
      utilization-focused evaluation with a multistrand, sequential mixed-methods 
      approach was conducted to monitor awardee accomplishments and activities. Data 
      analysis included descriptive statistics, as well as subanalyses of data by 
      awardee characteristics. Thematic analysis using deductive a priori codes was 
      used for qualitative analysis. RESULTS: Ninety percent of awardees reported 
      completing at least 1 accreditation prerequisite during NPHII, and more than half 
      reported completing all 3 prerequisites by the end of the program. Three-fourths 
      of awardees that completed a self-assessment reported closing gaps for at least 1 
      Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standard. Within 3 years of the launch 
      of PHAB accreditation, 7 NPHII awardees were accredited; another 38 had formally 
      applied for accreditation. CONCLUSIONS: Through NPHII, awardees increased 
      collaborative efforts around accreditation readiness, accelerated timelines for 
      preparing for accreditation, and prioritized the completion of required 
      accreditation activities.
FAU - Rider, Nikki
AU  - Rider N
AD  - National Network of Public Health Institutes, New Orleans, Louisiana (Dr Rider 
      and Mss McKasson and McKeever); and Applied Systems Research and Evaluation 
      Branch (Ms Frazier), Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (Ms 
      Corso), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and 
      Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia.
FAU - Frazier, Cassandra M
AU  - Frazier CM
FAU - McKasson, Sarah
AU  - McKasson S
FAU - Corso, Liza
AU  - Corso L
FAU - McKeever, Jennifer
AU  - McKeever J
LA  - eng
GR  - CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
GR  - U38 HM000520/HM/NCHM CDC HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - J Public Health Manag Pract
JT  - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
JID - 9505213
MH  - Accreditation/*methods/organization & administration/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Program Evaluation/methods
MH  - Public Health/methods/*standards/trends
MH  - Public Health Administration/standards
MH  - United States
PMC - PMC5923427
MID - NIHMS917170
COIS- The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2017/10/31 06:00
MHDA- 2019/11/09 06:00
PMCR- 2019/07/01
CRDT- 2017/10/31 06:00
PHST- 2017/10/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/11/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/07/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000660 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health Manag Pract. 2018 Jul/Aug;24(4):392-399. doi: 
      10.1097/PHH.0000000000000660.