PUBLIC HEALTH 

Promote health and safety.

1.      Maintain/Improve collaboration and involvement with community/county.
1.A.  Continue involvement with Interagency Council and upkeep of resource directory.
1.B.  ACTS group sustained and moving forward to identify and act on problems.
1.C.  Continue involvement in the Child Fatality Review Panel.
1.D.  Continue as active Health Occupations Advisory Council member of North Central Career Center.
1.E.  Continue/Build on schools relationship.

2.      Maintain/Improve health promotion/public education activities.
2.A.  Continue involvement in local health fairs.
2.B.  Continue to respond to requests for public speaking/presentations 100%.
2.C.  Continue contracting with local radio station.
2.D.  Improve/increase utilization of local newspaper.
2.E.  Improve keeping materials current and possibly developing some of our own.
2.F.  Improve/expand using our new website.
2.G.  Plan promotions to cover, at a minimum, concerns identified through an annual update/assessment, as well as meeting all contract requirements.

3.      Ensure a competent public health workforce.
3.A.  Establish individual employee professional development/training plans.
3.B.  Maintain membership in applicable professional organizations.

Prevent diseases and injuries.

4.      Maintain/Improve surveillance system.
4.A.  More communication with surveillance sites.
4.B.  Reduce burden of reporting.
4.C.  Maintain/improve use of data received.
4.D.  Increase number of surveillance sites.
4.E.  Update surveillance policies and procedures.

5.      Monitor health status to identify community health problems/hazards.
5.A.  Continuous updating of data and finding new sources of data to assist in monitoring/assessing.
5.B.  Improve “community approach” to monitoring/identification of problems/hazards.  Research for new insights and innovative solutions to problems.
5.C.  Evaluate health services.

6.      Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6.A.  Healthy infants and children interventions.
      6.A.1.  Healthy pregnancy.
      6.A.2.  Breastfeeding.
      6.A.3.  Immunizations.
      6.A.4.  Nutrition.
      6.A.5.  Physical activity.
      6.A.6.  Lead poisoning.
6.B.   Healthy adolescents interventions.
      6.B.1.  Health risk behaviors.
      6.B.2.  Motor vehicle.
      6.B.3.  Tobacco use.
      6.B.4.  Healthy weight.
      6.B.5.  Teen pregnancy.
6.C.   Healthy adults interventions.
      6.C.1.  Tobacco use.
      6.C.2.  Physical activity.
      6.C.3.  Nutrition.
      6.C.4.  Sexually transmitted diseases.
      6.C.5.  Tuberculosis.
6.D.   Healthy seniors interventions.
      6.D.1.  Chronic diseases.
      6.D.2.  Immunization.
      6.D.3.  Home and community care.

Deal with natural and manmade disasters.

7.      Continue as member of LEPC.    
     7.A.  Improve coordination, cooperation, communication with county emergency contacts.
     7.B.  Link health department pandemic influenza preparedness plan with the HCHD emergency     preparedness plan utilizing county input.

8.      Update/Improve local public health emergency preparedness plan as part of a regional plan.

9.      Continue to train health department staff on emergency preparedness.

10.  Continue to improve equipment and supply readiness.

Make health care more accessible.

11.      Link people to needed personal health services.
11.A.  Maintain a current resource directory.
11.B.  Make proper referrals for all services eligible for.

12.      Ensure the availability of health services.
12.A.  Continue to provide quality hospice services.
      12.A.1.  Increase the knowledge of hospice to medical providers and the public.
      12.A.2.  Maintain/improve adequate training of staff
      12.A.3.  Improve volunteer participation.
      12.A.4.  Maintain/improve hospice quality assurance program.
12.B.  Continue to provide quality home health services.
      12.B.1.  Maintain/improve adequate training of staff.
      12.B.2.  Continue to develop the OBQI quality assurance process that has already been initiated.
12.C.  Provide services not generally available.
      12.C.1.  Child Health Conference (CHC) and Healthy Children and Youth (HCY) checks.
      12.C.2.  Women, Infants and Children (WIC) clinic.
      12.C.3.  Prenatal Case Management.
      12.C.4.  Childhood Lead Screening.
      12.C.5.  Blood Pressure clinics throughout the county.
      12.C.6.  Immunizations.
      12.C.7.  School health services.
12.D.   Work with community/groups to identify gaps in services and how to fill those gaps.

Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

13.      Continue to provide quality inspections of:
§         Child care facilities
§         Grocery stores
§         Motels/lodging
§         Restaurants
13.A  Discuss possible methods of reporting results of restaurant inspections that are repeatedly not up to standard..
13.B.  Continue a monthly report to administrator/board on inspections and results.

14.      Ensure that appropriate consumer health/safety recall information is made available to the public.

15.      Continue to provide on-site sewage system inspections.

16.      Continue to respond to complaints in a timely manner.

17.      Continue to provide training as requested by businesses and the public 100%.

18.      Improve knowledge of local ordinances and develop a strategy/plan for implementation of any new needed ordinances, if possible.
18.A.  Identify needed ordinances.
18.B.  Identify the public health jurisdiction’s legal authority to develop, implement and enforce policy.
18.C.  Determine the strategy for passage of a third class county’s ordinances with assistance from the County Prosecuting Attorney.