Welcome to the PHAB News Room

The PHAB News Room serves as a location for posting the latest list of accredited public health departments as well as those press releases, newspaper articles and other announcements about public health departments achieving accreditation.

It also serves as the repository for PHAB generated publications and reports, links to other publications and reports about public health department accreditation and quality improvement, and informal papers on the subject of public health department accreditation. It also contains information on how to request presentations, conference speakers, or exhibits from PHAB.

PHAB Standards and Measures Version 1.0 Errata

by admin Posted on December 22, 2011

An updated version of the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Standards and Measures Version 1.0 has been uploaded to the PHAB website effective Thursday, December 22, 2011. Since the release of the PHAB Standards and Measures Version 1.0 in July 2011, PHAB has identified and fixed spelling, grammatical, and naming errors within the standards and measures document.

More importantly, PHAB has found content errors in Domain overviews, purpose statements, required documentation descriptions, and guidance for required documentation that may affect a health department’s understanding and interpretation of the standards and measures. PHAB has detailed these errors in an errata document. Please note that these are minor content errors and do not change the current document version number.

If you have any questions or concerns about the above errata; specific questions about the standards and measures; or additional errors of which PHAB should be made aware, please contact:

Robin Wilcox
PHAB Chief Program Officer
E: rwilcox@phaboard.org
P: 703.778.4555

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Public Health Accreditation Board Launches National Accreditation for Health Departments

by admin Posted on September 16, 2011

Washington, D.C.—The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) launched the first national accreditation program for all public health departments today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The goal of PHAB’s accreditation program, initiated and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is to protect and improve Americans’ health by advancing the quality and performance of all of the nation’s public health departments—state, local, territorial and tribal. Click here to read the full press release online.

Watch the launch video here:

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