Michigan Public Health Institute

Office of Accreditation and Quality Improvement

Kanchan Lota, MPHProgram Coordinator

September 2009Mlc-3 Open Forum Meeting

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Michigan’s MLC-3 Partners

Department of Community Health

Department of Agriculture

Department of Environmental Health

45 Local Health Departments

Michigan Public Health Institute

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Michigan Local Public Health Accreditation Program

45 local health departments– 14 district health

departments– 30 single county health departments – 1 city health department (Detroit)

The Nation’s First Public Health Accreditation Program

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Included ProgramsAdministrative Capacity• Local Health Department Powers and Duties• Clinical Laboratory

Local Public Health Operations• Food Service Sanitation (MDA)• General Communicable Disease Control• Hearing• Immunization• On-Site Sewage Treatment Management (DEQ)• Sexually Transmitted Disease• Vision

Categorical Grant-Funded• HIV/AIDS• Maternal Support Services/Infant Support

Services• Family Planning• Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program• Women, Infants and Children (WIC)

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Health Improvement Planning

Target Area Selection Process

Locally Driven

Survey of all 45 Local Health Departments

Relevance, Interest, and Data Availability

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Request for Proposals for Selected Target Areas

Health Improvement Planning Chronic Disease

◦Competitive Selection Process◦$10,000 in partial support to selected teams

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Mini-collaborative Model

MentorsCompetitive Selection ProcessMatching mentor with the mini-

collaborativeQuality Improvement Consultant – Jim

Butler

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Mini-Collaborative

Public Health Delta & Menominee

Counties

Saginaw County Department of Public

Health

Mentor: Genesee County Health

Department (Ward Lindsay)

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Plan – Do – Study – Act

Initial Annual Learning Session

Michigan’s Quality Improvement

Guidebook: Embracing Quality in Local

Public Health

Teleconferences

Webinars

On-going Technical Assistance

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Collaboration is a social process and attention to “people” issues can ultimately determine success

Benard, 198912

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Challenges & Lessons Learned

Target Area

Working with new teams

Time

Communication

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Importance of Communication

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Challenges & Lessons Learned

Mentors and Mini-Collaborative Model

Internal capacity

Internal resources

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Collaboration StrategiesProvide supportCelebrate successes

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For More Information…

Michigan Public Health InstituteOffice of Accreditation and Quality Improvement

www.accreditation.localhealth.netKanchan Lota 517 324 8340

email: klota@mphi.org

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