Standard 10.1 Identify and Use the Best Available Evidence for Making Informed Public Health Practice Decisions

Increasing HIV Testing Rates in Peach County, Georgia
NCHD 5-2
Completed
Impact Statement:
This health department was able to achieve a 51% improvement in HIV testing rates, which can result in identifying more people with HIV and better, more immediate treatment. In order to reduce redundancy, the QI project team eliminated one of the demographic forms that had been required, saving...
An Initiative to Improve a Local Health Department's Lyme Disease Case Report Process
Jefferson County Public Health Service
Completed
Impact Statement:
Responding to case reports of Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne infection in North America represented a very large time burden for a local health department in northwest New York state. The department used QI tools to decrease the number of steps and amount of time to respond to case...
Implement a Systematic Process to Deliver and Document a Brief Tobacco Cessation Intervention To All Clients Seeking Family Planning and Sexual Health Services in the Denver Metro Health Clinic
DPH
Completed
Impact Statement:
Denver Health used rapid cycle improvement to implement a brief tobacco cessation intervention (2As &R) in a high risk urban family planning and sexual health clinic. The intervention was enhanced by modifications to the electronic medical record system. They plan to spread this intervention...
Improving 5A's Tobacco Cessation Counseling Usage in Adult Clients of the Health Department
Cleveland/McClain County Health Departments
Completed
Impact Statement:
Even the implementation of evidence-based public health interventions poses challenges for most health departments. Using rapid-cycle tools and regular status monitoring, Cleveland County Health Department dramatically improved completion of the 5A’s smoking cessation service.
Improving the Quality and Efficiency of the Prenatal Care Coordination Program
Clark County Health Department
Completed
Impact Statement:
Wisconsin’s Prenatal Care Coordination (PNCC) program has been shown to decrease low-birth weight among single women, increase family support and involvement of the father, decrease preeclampsia, and decrease smoking among pregnant women. Clark County health department used QI to achieve 100%...
Department-Wide Survey Process: Ensuring Every Client Is Given the Opportunity for Input
ACHD
Completed
Impact Statement:
The Allegan County Health Department used QI to increase of the percent of department programs that perform client satisfaction surveys from 33 to 81%. As a result valuable feedback from clients is enabling the department to provide services and programs that better meet the needs of its community.
The Sexually Transmitted Disease Client Survey Process: Standardizing the Process to Increase Survey Return and Client Input
Allegan County Health Department
Completed
Impact Statement:
The local health department improved how they got customer satisfaction information from clients at their sexually transmitted disease clinics, enabling them to use the feedback to increase client satisfaction, improve program efficiency and provide culturally-appropriate services.
Building Performance Management and Continuous Quality Improvement Capacity Among Alabama’s Title X Family Planning Providers at the Local Level in Order to Improve Health Care Delivery
Alabama Department of Public Health
Completed
Impact Statement:
The Alabama state health department trained local health department family planning clinic staff in QI. The QI tools provided helped staff analyze current procedures and identify service delivery bottlenecks and then design interventions resulting in increased capacity and a reduction in waiting...
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