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Dear Subscriber,
PHF E-News brings you the latest information on how you can use performance management, quality improvement, and workforce development to improve the quality and performance of your organization and the health of your community. |
Learn More about Academic Health Departments from the AHD Learning Community
 As the field of public health evolves, collaboration is critical. With limited time and resources, how can health departments work to meet community health needs most effectively and academic institutions ensure they are best preparing students for the realities of the working world? Read the latest PHF Pulse Blog post by Kathleen Amos, where she explains that academic health department (AHD) partnerships offer one possibility for realizing the benefits of collaboration and improving community health, and shares the latest activities of the AHD Learning Community.
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Get Technical Assistance through New Grant Programs
 The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded more than $200 million to public and private organizations through grant programs focused on populations hardest hit by chronic diseases. In addition to addressing leading risk factors for chronic disease, these awards provide new opportunities for chronic disease programs to receive technical assistance in performance management, quality improvement, and workforce development to help achieve programmatic and infrastructure objectives. Ready to take advantage of these programs? Learn how PHF can help your organization maximize the opportunities to improve its performance.
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CDC Taps TRAIN to Help Prepare Health Workers to Respond to Ebola
 Throughout the Ebola outbreak, CDC has prepared health workers with quality, competency-based training that is critical to stemming transmission of communicable diseases. Discover how CDC has utilized the TRAIN network to meet the challenge of reaching and training the health workforce. |
New Resources Available to Support Use of the Performance Management Toolkit
 Since its release in June 2014, thousands of public health professionals have used the Performance Management Toolkit to find resources and tools to better understand performance management and how to develop successful performance management systems. Most recently, PHF released two new resources, a Frequently Asked Questions document and an archived recording of the Pinpoint the Resources You Need webinar, to support use of the toolkit. Incorporating comments, questions, and feedback from the public health community, both of these resources provide answers and guidance to those looking to improve their approach to performance management and suggestions about how the Performance Management Toolkit can help. Access these two latest resources.
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Improving Community Health with Two New Services
 While public health organizations and their community partners strive to remain nimble in the context of a changing health system, PHF has developed two new performance improvement services that leverage partnerships to achieve population health goals. These services respond to the need for public health and health care organizations to use collaborative solutions. Find out more about the customized services that use quality improvement tools and performance management frameworks to guide decision-making and optimize results.
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Emergency Plans Begin with Effective Communication Planning
 During emergencies such as tornadoes, earthquakes, infectious disease outbreaks, and acts of terrorism, public health professionals and others need to be prepared with the necessary skills to care for themselves and their communities. The more skills and training you have about important topics such as effectively communicating during a crisis and efficiently responding to the community, the more lives can be saved during an emergency. Learn more about communications training, tools, and resources from PHF that can help your organization build a key component of your emergency plans.
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The BUILD Health Challenge: Improving Health through Innovative Collaborations
Have you heard of the BUILD Health Challenge? It is an award program from a public-private partnership designed to support community collaborations that are working to give everyone a fair chance to be healthy. Awards will total $7.5 million to strengthen partnerships among hospitals, nonprofits, local health departments, and other community organizations to improve the health of low-income neighborhoods within cities with populations greater than 150,000.
PHF is ready to support your application with customized technical assistance to build workforce capacity and strengthen your community's infrastructure to provide and support a healthy place to live. Contact Margie Beaudry at [email protected], (202)218-4415, or submit your information online to get started. The deadline to apply is January 16, 2015.
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