This organizational chart provides a visual overview of the Horizon Community Health Board (Minnesota). Select this link for a restructuring timeline and links to more Horizon restructuring documents.
This document describes the development of a shared services arrangement in Colorado for one county to provide qualified staff to another county and keep both counties in compliance with state law.
This case study describes the formation of the Eastern Highlands Health District in Mansfield, Connecticut. Ten towns were involved. The case study provides how and why the agreement was formed, making the case for sharing services. It defines a shared services model, and discusses obstacles, benefits and key takeaways.
The Minnesota State Community Health Services Advisory Committee called for a workgroup to investigate increased changes in organizational and governance structures of local public health departments, to understand the changes at a foundational level and to update an earlier blueprint for a strong and successful system of public health departments. This report documents the workgroups […]
This organizational chart shows the organization of the different sectors and staff positions of the Horizon Public Health Department in Minnesota. At the top of the organization is the Administrator. Immediately below the administrator are Assistant Administrators, the Budget and Finance Supervisor, and the Human Resource Coordinator. Additional staff positions and programs flow down from […]
This report examines the concept of a regionalized organizational structure in relation to Oklahoma’s public health system, and presents a broad model of regionalization possibilities. Available online: http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/accreditation/upload/Regionalization-Exploration-for-an-Alternate-Organizational-Model.pdf
This Status Report highlights the work of the Massachusetts Public Health Regionalization Project. The Regionalization Project’s goal is to strengthen the Massachusetts public health system by creating a state-funded regional structure for equitable delivery of local public health services across the Commonwealth.
This webinar provides highlights from three Nebraska health districts that are sharing community outreach workers. It also provides highlights from CJS initiatives in New York and Colorado. Information about the Center’s Roadmap to Develop Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing Initiatives and Success Factors in Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing Arrangements is also included. Available online: https://phsharing.org/2015/05/28/nebraskawebinar/
This paper examines the effects of local health department consolidations on the total and administrative expenditures of local health departments in Ohio from 2001 to 2011. Authors found consolidations resulted in reduced expenditures and improvements in services.
Cross-jurisdiction resource sharing is considered a possible means to improve efficiency and effectiveness of public health service delivery. A merger of the tuberculosis (TB) clinics of a rural and a metropolitan jurisdiction in East Tennessee provided an opportunity to study service provision changes in real time. A mixed methods approach was used, including quantitative data […]