Download or read book HHS Operational Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health Information Technology Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities written by Valerie C. Melvin and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catastrophic public health (PH) event could threaten our national security and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. Recognizing the need for efficient sharing of real-time info. to help prevent devastating consequences of PH emergencies, Congress mandated the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with state, local, and tribal PH officials, to develop a strategic plan for the establishment and evaluation of an electronic nationwide PH situational awareness capability. This report reviewed HHS's status of efforts to implement these capabilities, described collaborative efforts to establish a network, and determined grants authorized by the act and awarded to PH entities. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Government Operations written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) fiscal year (FY) 2000 performance plan, focusing on: (1) assessing the usefulness of the agency's plan for decisionmaking; and (2) identifying the degree of improvement the agency's FY 2000 performance plan represents over the FY 1999 plan. GAO noted that: (1) HHS' FY 2000 annual performance plan consists of a 250-page departmentwide summary and 13 individual agency plans; (2) although the plan more clearly ties performance goals to the Department's strategic plan than the 1999 plan did, HHS' 2000 performance plan provides a limited picture of intended performance across the Department, a limited discussion of strategies and resources the Department will use to achieve its goals, and limited confidence that HHS' performance information will be credible; (3) HHS' FY 2000 performance plan indicates some degree of progress in addressing the weaknesses that GAO identified in its assessment of HHS' 1999 performance plan; (4) in reviewing HHS' FY 1999 plan, GAO observed that the plan could: (a) more consistently set measurable performance goals; (b) provide information about how HHS agencies will coordinate with one another and other performance partners, such as states, to achieve related goals; (c) identify the resources HHS needs to accomplish its goals; (d) discuss how HHS intends to address problems with performance data; and (e) more consistently link performance goals with HHS' mission, strategic goals, and program activities; (5) improvements in the FY 2000 plan include: (a) a description of how Department strategic goals relate to key programs and initiatives, and identification of some agency performance goals that implement Department strategic goals; (b) better descriptions of strategies and resources needed to accomplish performance goals; and (c) better identification of data to be used to measure performance and better discussions of data weaknesses; (6) HHS' FY 2000 performance plan includes an expanded departmentwide summary that links departmental strategic goals to programs and initiatives and selected performance goals and measures from the agencies' performance plans; and (7) the plan identifies the agencies responsible for implementing departmentwide goals.
Download or read book OCD HS Head Start Policy Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the HHS Family Planning Program written by Adrienne Stith Butler and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management of Hhs written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO examined the role and operations of the Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the Secretary (OS) in managing HHS programs and activities. GAO found that: (1) the lack of an effective strategic planning management system within OS hampered many secretaries' capacity to effectively manage administrative matters and programs; (2) although HHS decisionmaking processes tended to be slow but generally effective, their quality suffered if OS inappropriately used a clearance process designed to ensure that the secretary obtained the knowledge and perspective of department officials before making a decision; (3) although secretaries have appointed chiefs of staff to assist in HHS management, their involvement in various departmental matters has often overlapped with and caused confusion over the duties and responsibilities of other senior OS officials; (4) although secretaries retained authority for policy activities and delegated administrative and program activities to others, they did not monitor those activities to ensure effectiveness and efficiency; (5) HHS did not have an agency-wide, coordinated approach to systematically address its work-force problems; (6) although some operating divisions attempted to solve their own work-force problems, they lacked the comprehensive perspective needed to match human resources to changing operational and program objectives; (7) information management problems in many HHS programs contributed to difficulties in providing good service and assessing program performance; (8) before 1986, OS attempts to improve HHS information management failed because it exerted too much direct control over information management activities; and (9) although past attempts to correct long-standing problems in establishing an effective financial management system proved unsuccessful, HHS developed a plan called the Phoenix Plan, aimed at long-term financial management enhancement efforts.
Download or read book Social Security Administration written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1984 Department of Health and Human Services written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Challenges of Global Proportions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Priorities for the National Vaccine Plan written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccination is a fundamental component of preventive medicine and public health. The use of vaccines to prevent infectious diseases has resulted in dramatic decreases in disease, disability, and death in the United States and around the world. The current political, economic, and social environment presents both opportunities for and challenges to strengthening the U.S. system for developing, manufacturing, regulating, distributing, funding, and administering safe and effective vaccines for all people. Priorities for the National Vaccine Plan examines the extraordinarily complex vaccine enterprise, from research and development of new vaccines to financing and reimbursement of immunization services. Priorities for the National Vaccine Plan examines the extraordinarily complex vaccine enterprise, from research and development of new vaccines to financing and reimbursement of immunization services. The book makes recommendations about priority actions in the update to the National Vaccine Plan that are intended to achieve the objectives of disease prevention and enhancement of vaccine safety. It is centered on the plan's five goals in the areas of vaccine development, safety, communication, supply and use, and global health.
Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Workforce written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. The federal government-largely through HHS-funds programs to help ensure a sufficient supply and distribution of health care professionals. Some experts suggest that maintaining access to care could require an increase in the supply of providers, while others suggest access can be maintained by, among other things, greater use of technology. GAO was asked to review HHS's workforce efforts. In this report, GAO examines (1) HHS's planning efforts for ensuring an adequate supply and distribution of the nation's health care workforce and (2) the extent to which individual HHS health care workforce programs contribute to meeting national needs. GAO reviewed strategic planning documents, workforce projection reports, and other related documents obtained from HHS agencies; interviewed HHS officials; and analyzed performance measures for the largest health care workforce programs operated by HHS.
Download or read book Ensuring Quality Cancer Care written by National Cancer Policy Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-08-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific breakthroughs are announced, though, many cancer patients may be getting the wrong care, too little care, or too much care, in the form of unnecessary procedures. How close is American medicine to the ideal of quality cancer care for every person with cancer? Ensuring Quality Cancer Care provides a comprehensive picture of how cancer care is delivered in our nation, from early detection to end-of-life issues. The National Cancer Policy Board defines quality care and recommends how to monitor, measure, and extend quality care to all people with cancer. Approaches to accountability in health care are reviewed. What keeps people from getting care? The book explains how lack of medical coverage, social and economic status, patient beliefs, physician decision-making, and other factors can stand between the patient and the best possible care. The board explores how cancer care is shaped by the current focus on evidence-based medicine, the widespread adoption of managed care, where services are provided, and who provides care. Specific shortfalls in the care of breast and prostate cancer are identified. A status report on health services research is included. Ensuring Quality Cancer Care offers wide-ranging data and information in clear context. As the baby boomers approach the years when most cancer occurs, this timely volume will be of special interest to health policy makers, public and private healthcare purchasers, medical professionals, patient advocates, researchers, and people with cancer.
Download or read book Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influenza pandemic caused by the 2009 H1N1 virus underscores the immediate and critical need to prepare for a public health emergency in which thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people suddenly seek and require medical care in communities across the United States. Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations draws from a broad spectrum of expertise-including state and local public health, emergency medicine and response, primary care, nursing, palliative care, ethics, the law, behavioral health, and risk communication-to offer guidance toward establishing standards of care that should apply to disaster situations, both naturally occurring and man-made, under conditions in which resources are scarce. This book explores two case studies that illustrate the application of the guidance and principles laid out in the report. One scenario focuses on a gradual-onset pandemic flu. The other scenario focuses on an earthquake and the particular issues that would arise during a no-notice event. Outlining current concepts and offering guidance, this book will prove an asset to state and local public health officials, health care facilities, and professionals in the development of systematic and comprehensive policies and protocols for standards of care in disasters when resources are scarce. In addition, the extensive operations section of the book provides guidance to clinicians, health care institutions, and state and local public health officials for how crisis standards of care should be implemented in a disaster situation.
Download or read book Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2008 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
