Welcome to the project portal for the Wisconsin Public Health Quality Initiative (WIQI)! This page is for project partners and anyone else interested in learning about Wisconsin's efforts to improve its health departments through accreditation preparation and quality improvement.
Mid November Update
For anyone interested in public health quality improvement and accreditation:
1. The Public Health Accreditation Board is hosting the first in a series of national update webcasts on December 15, 2008 from 11:30 AM to 1 PM. To register, visit www.phaboard.org.
2. A public health program evaluation resource for your consideration (or reconsideration) is the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation located at http://www.cdc.gov/eval/framework.htm. Within this section is a 92 page PDF self study guide.
3. Thanks to Terri Timmers, WDPH Northern Region Director, for sharing this newly published resource entitled, Fundamentals of Evaluating Partnerships. This document is the latest addition to a series of evaluation guides developed by the CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) and it applies the evaluation framework noted above to partnership evaluation. This guide is available at http://www.cdc.gov/DHDSP/state_program/evaluation_guides/
4. A reminder (thanks to Mary Young, WDPH Southern Region Director) that there is a listing of evidence-based practices for Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 on the WDHS website at http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/statehealthplan/practices/index.htm
For WIQI Project Partners:
1. The WIQI Forum (for registered users only) QI Target Issues Forum contains a link to a NY Times article on adolescent alcohol use in Wisconsin.
2. An agenda for the brief project partner teleconference on December 9.2008 will be coming soon. Please keep that date and the January 13.2009 dates on your calendar.
3. Our project's second quarter report is posted in the Resources section of the Forum and NACCHO responses to recent questions generated in the optional essential services teleconferences are posted under the Questions for NACCHO discussion board.
Nancy
November Continued
Accredited? Licensed?
As we approach some important seasons in Wisconsin, here are a some resources and updates:
For anyone interested in public health quality improvement:
1. Check the news section of this website in the next day or two for a release that describes the Wisconsin Public Health Quality Improvement and Accreditation Project.
2. An update from the Public Health Accreditation Board on the revised timeline for national accreditation standards review at http://www.phaboard.org/standards.html
3. Check out the text of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President and CEO, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey’saddress, Public Health's "A-Ha" Moment and What it Means for theAmerican People at http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/rlm2008asthonaccho.pdf
4. RAND is offering a free webinar on applying quality improvement (QI) methods to public health emergency preparedness on Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST.Registration is limited and you can sign up at https://admin.acrobat.com/_a848853632/prepareqi/event/
For WIQI Project Partners:
1. The WIQI Forum (for registered users only) now has a new discussion board for our chosen quality improvement target issues, uniform public health data sets and adolescent alcohol use. Check it out along with updates in the NACCHO Self-Assessment Tool and Press boards.
2. A reminder to mark your calendars for brief project partner teleconferences on December 9.2008 and January 13.2009, both at 10 AM.
3. On 11.7.08, The MLC-3 national project offered a webinar entitled, Key Elements of a QI Project. You can download slides and/or the complete audio from the webinar by going to www.nnphi.org, clicking on grantee resources, and searching under meeting/teleconference materials.
Have a great weekend!
Nancy
November
Here are some easy decisions for WIQI partners on this Election Day:
Mark your calendar for an optional meeting with national Multi-State Learning Collaborative site visitors on March 4, 2009 at a TBD Wisconsin location. If you are interested in exchanging ideas in person with representatives from the national collaborative partners (NNPHI, RWJF, NACCHO and others), you may want to put a hold on this date. More information will follow.
Registered users should check out the Resources section of the WIQI Forum, which now holds two new items of interest for project partners:
1. An Excel spreadsheet that local health departments may use to record scores and document rationale for same.
2. A revised document for services VII and VIII provided by WDPH Southern Region Director, Robert Harris, in preparation for the Nov. 10 essential services teleconference.
