PMID- 29595611
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191108
LR  - 20191108
IS  - 1550-5022 (Electronic)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Linking)
VI  - 24 Suppl 3
DP  - 2018 May/Jun
TI  - Kent County Health Department: Using an Agency Strategic Plan to Drive 
      Improvement.
PG  - S95-S97
LID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000698 [doi]
AB  - The Kent County Health Department (KCHD) was accredited by the Public Health 
      Accreditation Board (PHAB) in September 2014. Although Michigan has had a 
      state-level accreditation process for local health departments since the late 
      1990s, the PHAB accreditation process presented a unique opportunity for KCHD to 
      build on successes achieved through state accreditation and enhance performance 
      in all areas of KCHD programs, services, and operations. PHAB's standards, 
      measures, and peer-review process provided a standardized and structured way to 
      identify meaningful opportunities for improvement and to plan and implement 
      strategies for enhanced performance and established a platform for being 
      recognized nationally as a high-performing local health department. The current 
      case report highlights the way in which KCHD has developed and implemented its 
      strategic plan to guide efforts aimed at addressing gaps identified through the 
      accreditation process and to drive overall improvement within our agency.
FAU - Saari, Chelsey K
AU  - Saari CK
AD  - Kent County Health Department, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Public Health Manag Pract
JT  - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
JID - 9505213
MH  - Accreditation/trends
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Local Government
MH  - Michigan
MH  - Public Health/*methods/trends
MH  - *Strategic Planning
EDAT- 2018/03/30 06:00
MHDA- 2019/11/09 06:00
CRDT- 2018/03/30 06:00
PHST- 2018/03/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/03/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/11/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - 00124784-201805001-00022 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000698 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health Manag Pract. 2018 May/Jun;24 Suppl 3:S95-S97. doi: 
      10.1097/PHH.0000000000000698.