| About Charlotte CHD
Legislative Intent of County Health
Department:
Charlotte County Health Department is a state agency that is part of
the Florida Department of Health and is governed by Florida Statute
154. The Florida Legislature designed the statute with the intent
that county health departments (CHDs) have a unique partnership
between the state and the counties to meet the public health needs
of the state. To strengthen this partnership the CHDs and the
counties enter into a contractual arrangement which is renewed
annually.
Our Philosophy of Doing Business:
The Charlotte CHD employees view you as the owner and customer of
this organization. As such, we always strive to make sure you have a
great experience every time you do business with us. We are always
looking at new and better ways to assure that we all live in a
healthy community. Likewise, we are always looking at how we can
create more public health value for you while making the best use of your time
and keeping costs down.
Charlotte CHD Vision:
Leading the Way to a Healthier and Safer Community. |
Charlotte CHD
Mission:
To Promote, Protect and Provide Public Health and Safety
Throughout Charlotte County. |
How Mission is Accomplished:
1) Preventing and controlling the spread of acute, chronic, and
infectious diseases
2) Assuring ready access to personal healthcare services
3) Monitoring the sanitary status of water and sewage systems,
institutional food service,
group living facilities and other activities that have the potential
to threaten the public’s health.
4) Providing education and resource information
5) Collecting and distributing public health data
6) Developing public health policies; and
7) Preparing for natural and man made disasters, including preparing
for mass prophylactic
clinics, managing and staffing Special Needs Shelters.
Role of Charlotte County Health Department:
Policy Development * Assessment * Assurance
Core Competencies:
1. Delivering Public Health Services.
2. Public Health Educator.
3. Public Health Regulator.
4. Monitor Public Health trends.
Industry Trends – Public Health:
Essential Public Health Services:
1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in
the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health
problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community
health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure
safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the
provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure a competent public health and personal healthcare
workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal
and population-based health services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health
problems.
Charlotte CHD’s Achieves Performance:
To be a high performance organization, Charlotte CHD constantly
focuses on achieving its vision. We do this by using the Balanced
Scorecard format for our strategic planning process. This involves
having an organizational strategic plan that supports the vision,
and departments/programs that have business plans that support the
strategic plan. To assure that we are achieving our stated goals,
all plans have measures of success and are monitored for how they
are doing at achieving their targets.
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