These PowerPoint slides are from a webinar presented by the Dissemination and Implementation Research to Improve Value (DIRECTIVE) project. This multistate study conducted in Connecticut and Massachusetts examined relationships between service delivery models and the breadth, cost and quality of local public health services. Two service delivery models were selected for inclusion (independent health departments […]
Discusses the legal structures and trends affecting local health departments (LHDs) and their abilities to address the challenges they face in the 21st century. Addresses the extent to which LHD consolidations are occurring and the ways in which they are done, the factors that facilitate these consolidations, and the effects they may have on services […]
This agenda is from the Northern Michigan Public Health Alliance (NMPHA) Steering Committee facilitated discussion as the group considered several sharing and alignment options. The agenda demonstrates their systematic and comprehensive process for considering several options. NMPHA was a 2018 Center for Sharing Public Health Services small grant awardee.
These checklists from the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission in Massachusetts highlight many of the steps needed for creating a Board of Health (BOH). They are designed to be used in tandem with the BOH Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). The file is a product of a 2018 Center for Sharing Public Health Services small grants project.
Montgomery Township Health Department and Branchburg Township Health Department in New Jersey agreed to share public health nursing services in an attempt to increase capacity despite a reduction in resources. This example of a shared services agreement is from a Center grantee.
These PowerPoint slides are from a presentation created by one of the Center for Sharing Public Health Services’ grantees, Montgomery Township (NJ) Health Department, describing how they decided to expand their public health nursing capacity through shared services.
This Excel spreadsheet is an example of a cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) performance measurement work plan. It is from Montgomery Township (New Jersey), one of the Center’s small grant recipients.
This SWOT analysis was completed by the Cerro Gordo County Department of Public Health (Iowa), when exploring CJS arrangements to 1) find the most appropriate version for their area’s disease surveillance and response system, and 2) strengthen their regional public health system for equitable delivery of epidemiological public health services. Available online: https://phsharing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SWOT.pdf