November 2021 — This brief highlights examples of resource sharing during the COVID-19 response and discusses challenges and benefits associated with sharing resources during this public health emergency.
The Center for Sharing Public Health Services (“Center”) has created a Roadmap to help guide public health departments interested in sharing resources with other health departments or organizations. Sharing resources allows communities to solve problems that cannot be solved — or easily solved — by single organizations. This practice can increase effectiveness (enhancing the quality […]
County managers in Genessee and Orleans hoped that by coming together and sharing resources and staff, they could stabilize and ultimately expand the services offered by their departments. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
Six counties in Colorado’s San Luis Valley began to explore ways to work together to provide environmental health services at the local level. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
In 2011, the Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Bureau received a CDC grant to closely examine their internal processes, so they could regionalize their work and combine individual contracts, with the ultimate goal of better addressing chronic disease prevention and health promotion at the local level. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
The governing boards of five counties in Minnesota unanimously lent their support to the continued exploration of a new entity that would eventually be known as Horizon Public Health. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
Recognizing great potential for mutual benefit, county commissioners in neighboring Hinsdale and Mineral counties agreed to merge their two health departments, forming the Silver Thread Public Health District. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
Montgomery Township Health Department changed its staffing model to move from contracted nurses to a shared full-time public health nurse. This shift provides the capacity needed to effectively address outbreaks and otherwise enhances nursing functions for Montgomery and Branchburg Townships. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
Ten county health departments in Florida formed a regional information technology center that provides them with high quality, timely and affordable services that none of the counties could afford on their own. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.
Marion and Polk counties in Oregon were prompted to develop a formal cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) arrangement by the state’s public health modernization work. They currently have two intergovernmental agreements in place, and continue to identify additional challenges and opportunities that could be well-served by CJS. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.