Using national public health accreditation to explore quality improvement and performance management in small local health departments

M Fifolt, P Allen, A Crenshaw, PC Erwin… - Journal of Public …, 2025 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of 4 small LHDs related
to Quality Improvement (QI) and Performance Management (PM) in their pursuit of PHAB …

Impact of local boards of health on local health department accreditation, community health assessment, community health improvement planning, and strategic …

GH Shah, L Corso, S Sotnikov… - Journal of Public Health …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To assess the impact of LBoH performance of governance functions on LHDs
having a current (completed within 5 years) community health assessment (CHA) …

Creating a taxonomy of local boards of health based on local health departments' perspectives

GH Shah, S Sotnikov, CJ Leep… - … journal of public …, 2017 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To develop a local board of health (LBoH) classification scheme and empirical
definitions to provide a coherent framework for describing variation in the LBoHs. Methods …

Local boards of health characteristics influencing support for health department accreditation

GH Shah, S Sotnikov, CJ Leep, J Ye… - Journal of Public Health …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: Local boards of health (LBoHs) serve as the governance body for 71% of local
health departments (LHDs). Purpose: To assess the impact of LBoH governance functions …

[HTML][HTML] Association Between Local Boards of Health Authority Over Budgets and PHAB Accreditation Standard Score

OO Dada, B Bekemeier, A Flaxman, AB de Castro - AJPM focus, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction This study examined the relationship between local board of health authority
and local health departments' budget-related activities and performance scores in the Public …

Impact of accreditation certification on improving healthcare quality and patient safety at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare

H Al-Sayedahmed, J Al-Tawfiq… - Global Journal on …, 2021 - meridian.allenpress.com
Introduction Accreditation gained worldwide attention as a means of increasing awareness
of medical errors, improving healthcare quality, and ensuring a culture of safety. Johns …

Rurality, quality improvement maturity, and accreditation readiness: a comparison study of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska local health departments

A Gregg, S Bekmuratova, D Palm… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To compare local health department (LHD) accreditation readiness (AR) and
quality improvement (QI) maturity in 3 states, between LHDs with varying levels of rurality …

Understanding local health departments decision to pursue/defer accreditation: A mixed-method systems thinking approach

M Ostovari, SS Liu, Y Yih, D Yu - IISE Transactions on Healthcare …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores factors impacting local health departments (LHDs) decision to pursue
accreditation in states with low public health expenditures. With only three accredited LHDs …

The importance of nurses' cognitive and emotional engagement in developing hospital quality culture

A Dewanto, SS Febrina, V Wardhani - Enfermeria Clinica, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To identify which component of the nurse's engagement that plays a significant
role in developing quality culture. Method This study involved 643 nurses from 15 hospitals …

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Recent Educational Foundations Requirements by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education for Program …

SD Zirges - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Abstract On November 2015, the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy
Education (CAPTE) published position papers for the 2016 changes to the CAPTE …