Vision, Goals, and Strategic Planning

-Complete public health Visioning process, identify essential public health functions, create ownership of the Vision and monitor ongoing progress.

-Communicate the public health Vision to the Commonwealth.

-Develop an ongoing strategic planning process for public health that is responsive to the needs of the Commonwealth.

-Develop specific public health goals and objectives that reflect our vision, strategic planning, and core function activities.

Conduct Organizational Capacity & Community Needs Assessments

-Orientate public health staff to the importance and value of organizational capacity and community needs assessment processes.

-Conduct organizational capacity and community needs assessments in all counties.

-Ensure that local health department services are included in community needs assessments.

INCREASE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Training and Staff Development

-Define and implement a statewide training program for public health staff.

-Establish and implement a statewide public health training program for the evolving roles of public health staff.

Improved Management Information Systems

-Review national health database options and public health networks in other states.

-Enhance local health department information database network and implement community wide data linkages to ensure M.I.S. capacity.

Personnel Management

-Revise local health department personnel merit system as necessary to meet the needs of employees, agencies and the community.

Outreach and Education

-Target populations for education and information to promote and strengthen public health.

-Unite with the Kentucky Department for Public Health in "Singing Praises of Public Health."

-Partner with the Kentucky Department of Public Health to develop and implement an information, outreach, and education campaign.

Stable and Secure Public Health Funding

-Develop and create ownership in the Kentucky Public Health Improvement Plan.

-Build coalitions for strong leadership and advocacy, change political climate and behavior to increase funding and resources for public health.

-Secure stable and flexible public health funding for the Kentucky Public Health Improvement Plan.

-Explore alternative sources of funding.

-Assess and respond to Welfare Reform and Managed Care initiatives upon indigent care demands for public health.

-Analyze expenditures and flexibility of funding sources to improve cost efficiency.

Managed Care

-Participate in each Medicaid Managed Care Regional Partnership during planning, design, and implementation.

-Define an array of health services and establish an appropriate range of fees.

-Assure protocols, standards, indicators, and outcomes are designed and monitored to improve health status.

-Educate decision makers and third party entities about the personal and home health services provided by local health departments.

Public Health Leadership and Community Partnerships To Achieve Improved Health Status

-Provide leadership for the development of collaborative community partnerships.

-Collaborate with community partnerships to assure appropriate services.

-Assess health status indicators of communities, educated the public about the significance of those indicators, develop policies and improve health status.

-Involve community partnerships in the identification of appropriated measures for a community report card.

-Monitor progress toward agreed health status indicators and outcome measures, and publish annual community report cards.