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Health and Human Services Agency recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Approve the use of the Public Health Accreditation Board Site Visitor Agreement Form 2014, noting the non-standard indemnity language; and
2) Authorize County staff participating as a Public Health Accreditation Board site visitor to sign said agreement, including any future amendments, contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management.
FUNDING: Federal Medi-Cal Administrative Activities Fund Balance.
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost
There is no cost associated with this agenda item except for participating staff time. Travel expenses are paid for by the Public Health Accreditation Board.
Background
National public health accreditation is defined as the development of standards, a process to measure health department performance against those standards, and recognition for those departments that meet the standard. Public health department accreditation standards address a range of core public health programs and activities including health education, health promotion, community health, chronic disease prevention and control, communicable disease, injury prevention, environmental health, maternal and child health, public health emergency preparedness, access to clinical services, public health laboratory services, and public health administration and governance.
Accreditation is achieved through a process overseen by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), a nonprofit organization, with the goal of advancing the quality and performance of public health departments. Through the accreditation process a public health department documents the capacity to deliver the three core functions of public health (assessment, policy development, and assurance) and the ten essential public health services which provide the framework for describing public health services. Accreditation is voluntary and as of March 19, 2014, there were thirty-one a...
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