The Wilson County Health Department uses a `Policy Update Log` for each policy that identifies review dates, revision dates and content that was revised in a table format that is easy to follow. For more information contact: Narshira Vann at … Read more

The Surry County Health and Nutrition Center is planning to use staff attendance at the Accreditation Origin Story webinar provided by the NCLHDA Program as evidence for meeting Activity 16.1. The webinar, presented by Dr. Jill Moore, Associate Professor of … Read more

Canva is a graphic design platform used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. The platform is free to use and offers paid subscriptions. Health departments can use Canva to create quick, eye-catching graphics. For … Read more

The Epi Team for Haywood County Health and Human Services Public Health Division distributes a quarterly “EpiGram” to community partners, board members, and surveillance participants. Each issue provides information and education by showcasing a specific communicable disease.  Each EpiGram also … Read more

Updating tobacco free signs to include electronic delivery systems is one of the clearest tools for compliance with the policy. It helps the health department staff because it makes it clear that electronic delivery systems are included in the tobacco … Read more

See an example of Haywood County Health and Human Services Public Health Division’s EpiGram and the Wilson County Health Department’s policy update log among other best practices highlighted in the 2019-2020 Best Practices Report. This report is a compilation of the … Read more

According to Marcy Williams, Caswell County Health Department AAC: “COVID-19 has brought public health to the forefront as first responders and as health care providers. As with counties across NC, Caswell County Health Department has partnered with some local health … Read more

The Dare County Department of Health and Human Services has two committees working toward continuous quality improvement and reaccreditation, but they have very different approaches and responsibilities. Both the Continuous Readiness Committee (CRC) and the Quality Improvement Council (QIC) have … Read more

Thanks to some detective work from Jeff Sieber, Onslow County Health Department AAC, who learned that the “show all versions bug” occurred when a document was downloaded, not saved and deleted.  This bug has caused on-going issues with documents not … Read more

In fall 2018, the Iredell County Health Department team was awarded Reaccreditation with Honors. Norma Rife, the AAC, noted during the Board meeting that while their agency did very well, like most agencies, they do have areas where improvement is … Read more