Our Services are for Everyone
Everyone benefits from public health services that help our residents achieve healthier & safer lifestyles and help to reduce disease and disease burden in our communities. We strive to equitably meet the needs of our communities and to ensure that all people are able to access our programs and services. We invite you to watch a brief video put together by the Nebraska Association of Local Health Directors which showcases the important work that public health departments throughout Nebraska do every day to help their residents lead healthier lives: Nebraska's Local Health Departments Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
What is Public Health?
Public health is the proactive, preventative approach to health concerns that affect a society as a whole. Public health is concerned with many facets of life, including: safe communities, environmental health, healthy lifestyles, injury prevention and more. Please see our programs & services pages for information on the wide range of public health services provided.
Public Health Accreditation
Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department (ELVPHD) is an accredited health department via the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). We are particularly proud of this accomplishment as public health accreditation is the measurement of health department performance against a set of nationally recognized, practice-focused and evidence-based standards. PHAB’s accreditation process seeks to advance quality and performance within public health departments. To receive accreditation, a health department must undergo a rigorous, peer reviewed assessment process to ensure it meets or exceeds a set of quality standards and measures. The peer-review process provides valuable feedback to inform health departments of their strengths and areas for improvement, so that they can better protect and promote the health of the people they serve in their communities. Residents of a community served by a nationally accredited health department can be assured that their health department has demonstrated the capacity to protect and promote the health of that community.
Performance Management & Quality Improvement
Our mission is to promote and improve health for all residents of our four county area. We use both performance management and quality improvement to help us see how we are doing on our goals.
Performance management helps us assure high quality operations and program delivery. Performance management at ELVPHD is used to help show how we are impacting the health of our community members. By measuring specific goals, we can see how well we are doing and focus our efforts on areas that need improvement. Each quarter we review how we are meeting our goals and objectives.
Our quality improvement program helps us find the best ways to improve our programs and departmental operations. Quality improvement uses a cycle of measurement, analysis, and improvement. Input from program coordinators and the public offers a way to increase our efficiency and effectiveness. Our staff submits project to our quality improvement team who then reviews & selects projects and works with staff to complete the quality improvement process with the ultimate goal of making our programs and operations the most efficient and successful possible to best serve the people of our health district.
The 10 Essential Public Health Services
- Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems
- Diagnose and Investigate health problems and health hazards to the community
- Inform, Educate and Empower people about health issues
- Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
- Develop Policies and Plans that support individual and community health efforts
- Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of healthcare when otherwise unavailable
- Assure a competent public and personal health care workforce
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
Updated 06/2024