Various states decided to make innovative
leaps towards implementing capacity and performance-based assessments as well
as accreditation programs of their public health departments. The Lead States
in Public Health Quality Improvement, also known as Multistate Learning
Collaborative, is a great initiative that convenes four nations to study
primary components of accreditation programs or state-based assessments carefully.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has funded this mega-budget project, while
Public Health Leadership Society and National Network of Public Health
Institutes have managed it (Kelemen & Sosík, 2015).
Given their recent interest in public health,
the United States government wanted to initiate multiple projects and
accreditation programs that could benefit humans and allow them to learn new
things. The goal of this program is to provide people with sufficient health
care facilities such as timely treatment, high-quality medicines, and
world-class diagnosis. Four primary states have been asked to participate in
this project and help people get rid of severe disorders as early as possible.
Regardless of their background, religion, level of maturity, color and race,
Americans will now receive free diagnosis and treatment facilities (Gounas,
2016).
Another goal of this program is to strengthen
health departments so they can ensure the provision of quality medicines to the
patients. Despite all the criticism and differences, critical elements, shared
challenges, and common themes have emerged making people understand the
importance of health. To foster the development of existing programs and
assessments, four main states initiated social media campaigns and created
awareness among the people regarding the effectiveness of governmental public
health agencies. Arizona, for instance, is one of those primary states and has
its own centralized public health system (Steven, 2006).
It might be difficult for the state to launch
and maintain performance-based assessments while ensuring uniformity and
authenticity. However, the Arizona Public Health System came forward to
implement new health policies and conducted a number of surveys to get an idea
of what people think about this initiative. A few years ago, Coconino County
Health Department started examining public health competencies and eventually
developed county-wide public health systems that could help evaluate the
feasibility of the Multistate Learning Collaborative project. Chicago also
participated in this program and later developed its own healthcare system
using the MAPP models (Kelemen & Sosík, 2015).
These days, health departments have to deal
with multiple issues that are classified into four main areas: increased costs
of health services, dependence on tech gadgets and equipment, pressure on
health departments to reduce prices and improve quality, and coming up the
expectations of patients as well as satisfying their needs. That is teamwork,
and no health department or organization can achieve the desired results alone.
Thus, the Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement is an incredible
initiative that brings different nations together and decreases pressure on a
single health organization to change the overall system (Gounas, 2016).
The
key principals of this project are the obsession with quality, customer focus,
long-term and short-term commitment, continual improvement system and
scientific approach. Ordinary people will be educated in different states
especially Arizona, and they will be taught how to get empowerment and courage
to change their own lives. Patients depending on expensive medical treatments
and pharmaceutical drugs will be provided with better health facilities, at
reasonable or no costs. In short, this project has had a big impact on the
overall healthcare system and is capable of bringing revolutions in medical
sciences in coming months (Steven, 2006)
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