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 […]
This report by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) describes the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute’s Data Sharing Framework and how it can be translated to use by other local health departments.
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.
Back in 2005, six health departments on Colorado’s western slope began their journey to establish what is now the West Central Public Health Partnership. The partnership has engaged in a variety of projects and offered a number of services previously out of the reach of the individual member health departments. This publication is from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services.