Director of Quality Improvement
Jefferson County Department of Health
Birmingham, AL
Background Information- Engaged in AHD-type activities for 5 years
- Organization participates in AHD partnerships
Areas of AHD Experience or Expertise
Getting Started with AHD Partnerships
- Developing written partnership agreements
- Identifying AHD champions
- Identifying potential partners
- Developing an AHD partnership
- Selling the AHD concept
- Building leadership support for an AHD partnership
- Exploring how an AHD can contribute to meeting health department accreditation standards
Components of AHD Partnerships
- Sustaining classroom teaching
- Developing and sustaining continuing education
- Sustaining practicum sites
- Developing, sustaining, and expanding research
Operationalizing AHD Partnerships
- Funding an AHD
- Sharing personnel across organizations involved in an AHD
- Sharing resources across organizations involved in an AHD
- Determining the role of an AHD partnership in gaining and maintaining health department accreditation
Understanding Impact/Evaluating AHD Partnerships
- Determining the value of AHD partnerships
- Measuring AHD outcomes
- Determining the impact of an AHD partnership on health department accreditation
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AHD Learning Community profile.