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- Why did your health department decide to apply for accreditation? What issues or gaps in capacity did you hope accreditation would address?
- What were the biggest challenges to achieving accreditation? For example, did your staff automatically embrace the process? Was it difficult to fit accreditation into an already full plate of duties and responsibilities?
- Part of the accreditation process involves gathering feedback about a health department’s strengths, weaknesses and areas in need of improvement. What were some of the most surprising findings that emerged from that process?
- How did the accreditation process change your perspective on what it means to run an effective and efficient public health department? Did it change how you see the health department’s role in keeping your community safe and healthy? Did accreditation change the way your health department operates?
- In what ways does the accreditation process raise the visibility of public health among residents? And why is this important to your health department?
- What are some helpful tips you can offer fellow health departments that are planning to apply for accreditation?