Category Archives: Focus on PHAB and PHNCI

Missouri’s Statewide Readiness Initiative – Strengthening Public Health Infrastructure and Promoting Public Health System Transformation

This entry is part 47 of 67 in the series Focus on Accreditation and Innovation

In October 2023, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) engaged with the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) to launch a first-of-its kind statewide initiative designed to build public health capacity, strengthen infrastructure and support governmental public health system transformation.

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Beyond the 80,000 Estimate: Calculate How Many FTEs your Health Department Needs

This entry is part 35 of 67 in the series Focus on Accreditation and Innovation

The Public Health Workforce Calculator is a tool to help local health departments with workforce planning efforts by utilizing information provided about the local health department to estimate the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) needed to ensure the provision of the Foundational Public Health Services. 

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Setting the Standard: The Role of Accreditation in Transforming Public Health Practice and Promoting Equity

The key to transforming our public health system is to change how we practice it. The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) supports health departments to improve quality, accountability, and performance. Health departments are the backbone of the public health system, and our mission is to transform public health practice by championing performance improvement, strong infrastructure, and innovation of our health

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Learnings from the Cross-sector Innovation Collaborative

Learnings from ten Cross-sector Innovation Initiative (CSII) grantees focusing on aligning across sectors to advance health and equity. Ten Cross-sector Innovation Initiative (CSII) grantees recently culminated a nearly two-year journey with us, focusing on aligning across sectors to advance health and equity. These grantees collaborated across public health, healthcare, social services, and community organizations to address issues such as health

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Advancing Public Health Systems Change through Version 2022

The release of Version 2022 of the Standards & Measures for Initial and Reaccreditation marks the culmination of a multi-year journey to ensure national standards for governmental public health departments are reflective of the changing nature of public health practice. PHAB embarked on the development of Version 2022 in 2017 by gathering input from multiple sources, including Insights on the

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