Organizational Capacity of Recipients to Implement the Approach. Applicants must have an existing and functional public health emergency management program within their jurisdiction’s public health department. They must possess the organizational capacity and skills needed to implement the award including the capability to: Monitor health status to identify community health problems; Xxxxxxxx and investigate health problems and health hazards in 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 health and personal health care workforce; Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services; Adapt response activities based on new insights and innovative solutions to health problems; Implement and/surge their public health emergency management program; Identify and roster staff for incident management roles and response leadership; Execute, revise, and develop program planning specific to an event; Conduct program evaluation; Conduct performance monitoring; Conduct and submit financial reports; Conduct budgeting and management and administration activities; Execute against their administrative preparedness plan; and Conduct personnel management activities. In support of these capabilities applicants must provide documentation on their capacity to implement the required activities and provide information that: Demonstrates the organizational capacity and skills to implement a functional response to a public health emergency; addressing public health emergency management, incident management and response leadership, response planning, program evaluation, performance monitoring, financial reporting, budget management and administration, and personnel management. Demonstrates existing organizational capacity, for example program and staffing management; performance measurement, and evaluation systems; financial reporting systems; communication, technological, and data systems required to implement the activities of a response in an effective and expedited manner; physical infrastructure and equipment; and workforce capacity, to successfully execute all proposed str...
Organizational Capacity of Recipients to Implement the Approach. PHEP recipients must address their ability to implement the requirements and expectations set forth in the Project Description section. PHEP recipients should have public health organizational capacity to implement the National Response Framework, which is built on scalable, flexible, and adaptable concepts and coordinating structures identified in NIMS. The flexibility of such structures helps ensure that communities across the country can organize response efforts to address a variety of risks based on their unique needs, capabilities, demographics, governing structures, and nontraditional partners. The National Response Framework is not based on a one- size-fits-all organizational construct, but instead it acknowledges the concept of tiered response which emphasizes that response to incidents should be handled at the lowest jurisdictional level capable of handling the mission. Additionally, PHEP recipients must provide copies of the organizational chart(s) for their PHEP programs. Recipients must name this file “PHEP Organizational Chart” and upload it as a PDF files at xxx.xxxxxx.xxx at the time of application submission.
Organizational Capacity of Recipients to Implement the Approach. Organizational capacity provides an opportunity for applicants to demonstrate their ability to execute this program's strategies and activities and achieve its outcomes. Applicants should have adequate infrastructure (equipment and physical space), information and data systems, electronic information and communication systems, and workforce capacity and competence to execute the award.
Organizational Capacity of Recipients to Implement the Approach. Applicants (see Eligibility Section) must have the organizational capacity to develop, implement, and manage the work necessary for a TB control program and TB laboratory and demonstrate ability to execute the strategies and activities, and meet stated outcomes successfully. The primary responsibility for designing and carrying out TB prevention and control activities rests with state and local health departments, not the Federal Government. Applicants should: • describe their state or local TB program(s), including infrastructure, workforce competence, data systems, and electronic information systems; • provide evidence of adequate program management, planning and development of policy, performance measurement, workforce development and training, and capacity to manage the required priority driven activities; • demonstrate briefly the capacity to manage persons who have suspected or active TB, including provision of clinical care with appropriate medications, medical consultative services, and infection control and coordination with other health-care providers; • confirm their ability to provide or refer TB patients for inpatient care and confinement if required; • discuss their diagnostic methods for case finding and contact investigation, including laboratory and chest radiographic services; • describe their ability for managing persons with LTBI; • confirm their TB case reporting process, including appropriate laws and regulations to support TB control activities, surveillance, and TB registry; • describe their data collection and analysis processes; and demonstrate adequate protection of confidentiality • provide an organizational chart of personnel performing TB laboratory testing including names of staff in each position • provide a brief description of the test methods used in the laboratory, including those for specimen processing, direct detection, AFB smear, culture, identification, DST, and interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) as well as a brief overview of the overall laboratory testing algorithm. A visual testing algorithm may also be included. • identify designated focal points for education and training, program evaluation, and laboratory, including their contact information
