Lake County Health
Department
Strategic Plan
Mission
Promote, protect and improve the health of all people in Lake
County
Vision
A healthier future for the people of Lake County
2006 - 2010 Strategic
Plan Priority Areas
Community
Partners Strategic Plan
Program Goal:
Build & Strengthen Partnerships to Improve Community Health
Outcomes
Objective 1:
Assess community partnerships to meet the needs of
Lake County residents by end of fiscal year 2007/2008
A. Evaluate and inventory current formal community
partnerships
B. Implement a process to identify and track formal
partnerships
C. Implement process to identify informal partnerships
D. Develop and maintain informal partners spreadsheet
Objective 2:
Gain knowledge of available community resources in Lake County
A. Identify available community resources
B. Utilize resources directories as a guide for
staff
C. Educate Leadership Plus
D. Supervisors training of staff
E. Division orientation - include an overview
F. Utilize Elder Affairs directory
Objective 3:
Develop and maintain relationships by cultivating new partners as
needed to meet community health needs
A. Survey the employees to assess the community
health and partnership needs
B. Identify existing employee participating and
roles in internal and external committees
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Highly
Competent Workforce Strategic Plan
Program goal: Recruit and retain a highly
competent workforce
Objective 1:
Improve the recruitment and hiring process by enhancing
current processes and practices.
A. Reduce the recruitment timeframe from 48 working
days to 32 working days for the hiring of qualified applicants
B. Develop a plan to market the benefits of Department
of Health employment and a tool to track its effectiveness.
C. Create a strategic tool identifying innovative
recruitment resources.
D. Develop a new supervisory hiring and recruitment
training
E. Expand and localize the content of the adopted
Basic Supervisor Training.
F. Train supervisors on recruiting and interviewing
policies and skills.
G. Review the possibility of offering Basic Supervisor
Training locally.
Objective 2:
Increase current retention rate from 72% to 85% by
2010
A. Ensure position descriptions and performance
reviews are reviewed and signed by supervisor, reviewing authority,
employee and HR on an annual basis to reflect the actual duties
and expectations of the job performed.
B. Benchmark pay rates and class specifications
with surrounding and/or similar counties.
C. Develop and implement a succession plan.
D. Develop retention training.
E. Train supervisor's on retention training.
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Health
of Women and Children Strategic
Plan
Program
Goal: Improve the Health of Women
and Children in Lake County
Objective 1:
By 2012, reduce the rate of obesity (? 95% of BMI), among WIC participants,
ages 2-5 years, by 2%
A. Identify WIC clients with BMI ? 95% at certifications
B. Counsel & Provide Educational Material
C. Client Follow Up Quarterly
D. Monitor BMI results
E. Evaluate BMI results
F. Offer Family and Support Groups
Objective 2:
By 2012, reduce the rate of obesity (? 95% of BMI) among 1st and
3rd graders in Lake County public schools by 2%
A. Identify 1st & 3rd graders in full service
school with BMI ? 95%
B. Counsel & Provide Educational Material
C. Client Follow Up twice yearly (3 & 6 months)
D. Monitor BMI results
E. Evaluate BMI results
F. Offer Family and Support Groups
Objective 3:
By 2012, reduce the rate in Lake County of repeated births to teen
mothers ages 15-19 to a rate ?18.4 (2007 State rate)
A. Increase Interconceptual Educational materials
to medical providers
B. Increase interconceptual educational materials
to Teen Parent Resource Teachers
Objective 4:
By 2012, reduce the infant death rate to ?7.1% (2007 State rate)
A. Educate prenatal care providers in Lake County
about Healthy Start Screen
B. Identify High Risk Population within Lake
County
Identified high risk population in Lake County Health Department
Maternity Clinic
C. Counsel and provide educational material to
identified clients (prenatal & post partum)
D. Monitor and Evaluate Screening Data
E. Educate Community: Enhance public knowledge
by providing timely and accurate public health educational programs,
and by disseminating appropriate educational resources
F. Develop FIMR
Objective 5:
By 2012, reduce the Fetal Death Rate to ? 7.6% (2007 State Rate)
A. Educate prenatal care providers in Lake County
about Healthy Start Screen
B. Identify High Risk Population within Lake County
Counsel and provide educational material to identified clients
(prenatal & post partum)
C. Educate Community: Enhance public knowledge
by providing timely and accurate public health educational programs,
and by disseminating appropriate educational resources
D. Develop FIMR
Objective 6:6.
By 2012, increase the rate of breastfeeding in black, non-Hispanic
WIC clients from 51% to 55%
A. Train staff in breastfeeding techniques
B. Completion of breastfeeding module by new WIC
staff
C. Provide one hour of breastfeeding training
per year to WIC staff
D. Breastfeeding support group at the WIC Leesburg
E. Introduce breastfeeding support group at the
WWC site
F. Promote Breast feeding in the community
G. Make Maternity clinic sites breastfeeding friendly.
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Facility
Strategic Plan
Program
Goal: To establish and maintain
a safe and comfortable work environment where staff can excel in
service.
Objective 1:
Enhanced and improved the working environment for the Lake County
Health Department staff and the community.
A. Established Standard
Operating Procedures for safety and to implemented
training of staff via Track It program.
B. Workforce Excellence Team has identified areas
of concern through suggestions, surveys, and reports from the
safety committee, and work with the budget department to correct
those areas.
C. Will compose a team to visit each site quarterly
to access the needs of the site.
D. Assigned safety liaisons at each site to submit
inspection results to safety committee.
Objective 2:
Create a comfortable work environment
and reduce worker compensation claims
by implementing OSHA regulations.
A. Recommended space allocation committee adopts
DMS guidelines for employee square footage needs and functions
of responsibilities.
B. Will approve budget allowance for purchase
of furniture and office ergonomic corrections needed.
C. Annually space allocation committee meets with
leadership to determine the needs of the department.
Objective 3:
Decrease the number of facility storage
sites and the expenses of transportation.
A. Locating central storage facility that will
accommodate the needs of the Lake County Health Department and
will eliminate multiple rental units.
B. Researching all available facilities in the
central radius of all sites. Provided that the Lake County Health
Department has a surplus of 7.5% cash balance and no loss of Federal
funding.
C. Will implement E-Bridge electronic documentation
of records or like program to reduce the amount of storage for
records.
D. Need to reduce fuel expenses by having one
location that is centralized for all sites.
Objective 4:
Communicate safety objectives to staff
and educate staff in proficient and timely manner.
A. Created and update facility and safety sharepoint
sites.
B. Set up surveys and questionnaires to receive
staff feedback on areas of concern.
C. Utilized the TRACK-IT system to implement safety
training and tracking.
D. Distributed safety bulletins to staff from
DOH and to enhance safety bulletin boards at all sites. This will
increase safety awareness.
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