City of Milwaukee Health Department, Milwaukee, WI.
Public Health Rep. 2013 Sep-Oct;128 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):40-8. doi: 10.1177/00333549131280S207.
The Laboratory System Improvement Program (L-SIP) of the Association of Public Health Laboratories aims to improve state public health laboratory (PHL) system performance through continuous quality improvement. We successfully applied this state assessment tool to a local PHL (LPHL) system by tailoring it to reflect local system needs and created an LPHL system definition explaining how a local system differs from, yet complements, a state system. On November 18, 2010, 75 stakeholders from 40 agencies assessed the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, PHL system, capturing themes, strengths and weaknesses of the system, and scores for each of the 10 Essential Public Health Services. A Laboratory Advisory Committee analyzed assessment results to identify a strategic focus of research and workforce development and define an action plan, which is now being carried out. Milwaukee's L-SIP process is effectively improving LPHL system research and workforce development while raising community awareness of the system.
公共卫生实验室协会的实验室系统改进计划(L-SIP)旨在通过持续质量改进来提高州公共卫生实验室(PHL)系统的性能。我们通过调整该州评估工具以反映当地系统需求,成功地将其应用于当地 PHL(LPHL)系统,并创建了一个 LPHL 系统定义,解释了本地系统与州系统的不同之处以及如何相辅相成。2010 年 11 月 18 日,来自 40 个机构的 75 名利益相关者评估了威斯康星州密尔沃基的 PHL 系统,捕捉到了系统的主题、优势和劣势,以及每个 10 项基本公共卫生服务的得分。一个实验室咨询委员会分析了评估结果,以确定研究和劳动力发展的战略重点,并定义了一个行动计划,该计划目前正在实施中。密尔沃基的 L-SIP 流程正在有效地改进 LPHL 系统的研究和劳动力发展,同时提高社区对该系统的认识。