Advanced Practice Center (APC)
The National Association of County and City Health Official's (NACCHO) Advanced Practice Centers (APC) Program is a network of local health departments that exist to serve the public health community, developing resources and training on topics such as:
- Bio-surveillance
- Vulnerable populations
- Risk communication
- Countermeasure distribution
- Workforce development
The Mesa County Health Department (MCHD) was awarded a grant from the National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) to serve as an Advanced Practice Center (APC) site in 2009 and again in 2010.
Mesa APC 2009-2010 Blueprint for the Use of Volunteers in Hospitals and Rural Medical Centers Objectives:
The Blueprint Project was aimed at helping local public health agencies, hospitals, and local volunteer organizations coordinate to integrate medical and non-medical volunteers into rural hospitals in the event of a medical surge. The Mesa County APC entered into a partnership with Family Health West hospital in Fruita, Colorado to develop these tools through a series of trainings and exercises. These exercises were used to test the hospital’s gaps in surge capacity and to identify areas in which volunteers could be used to support incident response.
The Blueprint tools can be implemented using the documents and templates found at the Mesa County APC website: http://health.mesacounty.us/MesaAPC.
Mesa County APC Team:
Greg Rajnowski: Project Manager
Presentations,Workshops, and Webinars
- Community Health Needs Assessment- A Case Study
In 2011, the Mesa County Health Department launched a quality improvement initiative to develop tools that enable us to better utilize technology as part of the community health assessment process. Mesa County Health Department’s newly formed Health Informatics team is leading the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Part of the team’s role is to integrate health department information, data sets, and assessment tools, including the development of a data inventory system that will help define data sharing practices at the health department. This process has intensified existing partnerships and provided new opportunities for data sharing and collaboration in the area of community assessment.
MCHD has merged many recommended models such as the NACCHO-MAPP, our state health department’s process, and other research-based approaches to integrate public health improvement planning into a community health assessment model that aligns the key elements of each.
Presentation Materials:
This product was produced under the direction of the Mesa County Advanced Practice Center (APC) at the Mesa County Health Department and was supported by Award Number 1H75TP000309-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the Mesa County APC and do not necessarily represent the views of the CDC or NACCHO.
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