JPHMP Direct July 25, 2024
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) administers the national public health accreditation program, providing health departments with a set of nationally recognized, practice-focused, and evidence-based standards to assess strengths and weaknesses, improve accountability and performance, and ultimately deliver better services and strategies to their communities. To evaluate the value and impact of the accreditation program, health departments are surveyed by PHAB at five milestones: after completing the Readiness and Training process, after becoming accredited, one year after becoming accredited, four years after becoming accredited, and after becoming reaccredited.
Once a year, PHAB publishes findings from the previous year’s evaluation results in our Value and Impact report. Highlights from this year’s report include the following:
- Quality improvement is consistently cited...