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The Michigan Public Health Week Partnership (Partnership)* invites you to nominate someone for the Hometown Health Hero award. The Hometown Health Hero award is presented every year to individuals and/or organizations that have made significant and measurable contributions to preserve and/or improve the health of their community. These awards will be presented on April 9, 2025, as part of Public Health Week in Michigan and National Public Health Week.
Awardees are selected solely from nominations received. The only way for someone to receive this award is to be nominated. What health improvements are happening in your community that we can potentially recognize with this award? To help you answer that question, look at those who have received this award in the past. Submit a completed nomination form to the Partnership by email or fax (517-335-8392) no later than 5:00 p.m., January 31, 2025.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Office of Performance Improvement and Management and the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) invite you to participate in a 2 1/2 week-long, virtual Quality Improvement Train-the-Trainer Training taking place on February 11th, 13th, 18th, 20th, and 25th. The training will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 am to 12 pm, for the 2 and 1/2 weeks. Participation in all five sessions is mandatory to receive a certificate of completion. Participants should come ready to share and partake in hands-on learning activities.
This virtual training will expand your capacity, understanding, and ability to implement Quality Improvement methods and techniques. You will receive tools and guidance to set the stage for sharing QI within your agency. Prior QI experience is not required.
You will learn the following from the QI Train-the-Trainer training:
- Develop a deeper understanding of Quality Improvement and the Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle.
- Learn how to train and lead other public health professionals in Quality Improvement methods and tools.
- Expand capacity and infrastructure within your agency for Quality Improvement efforts.
- Prepare to participate in Michigan Accreditation’s Quality Improvement Supplement.
- Enhance your agency’s ability to meet national PHAB accreditation standards.
This unique and valuable training opportunity is available to local and Tribal health departments and is limited to one participant per agency. Space is available for a total of 30 participants and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
To ensure this training reaches as many local and Tribal health department staff as possible, priority will be given to those who did not attend in the past. However, a waitlist will be kept for agencies that wish to have more than one person attend and for individuals who wish to attend the training again. If the training is not filled, those on the waitlist will be contacted.
To register for the training, please visit this link: https://forms.office.com/r/N6EsPVbXDT. Registration will be open until Friday, January 31, 2025.
If you have any questions about the training, please contact Haley David at hdavid@mphi.org or Jess Nash at jnash@mphi.org.
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As per our discussion last week at the PHEP Partners Meeting, respiratory fit testing is a requirement for anyone wearing a tight-fitting respirator. The PHEP program, either at the state or federal level, does not define specifically who at the local health department needs to wear a tight-fitting respirator. This is an LHD decision and may vary by LHD.
A tight-fitting respirator (such as an N95 respirator, half face or full-face respirator) works by creating a tight seal on the workers face and prevents contaminants from leaking in and making them sick. This could be chemical or infectious disease.
Considerations include:
- The MI-OSHA regulations. This covers fit testing, but also the selection process for the best respirator, the respiratory plan, and other details.
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Capability 14: Responder Health and Safety which states, “Identify responder safety and health risks”. This would include determine who has a risk of exposure to a respiratory contaminate (infectious disease, chemical, etc.) during an incident or as part of their regular job and therefore needs training and fit testing in advance of the need. It is recommended to consider environment health staff, communicable disease staff, and others.
- How fit testing is completed. This can be a fit test run by the local health department or a contract company may be used. (Fit test details can be found in the MI-OSHA regulations above.
Please contact your regional point of contact if you have additional questions.
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