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OCCHA’s mission is to promote accountability and
excellence in public
health programs and services. This is done primarily through developing,
implementing and maintaining the accreditation process. The accreditation
award symbolizes official recognition of excellence to the public, local
community agencies, professional associations and local, regional and
provincial governments.
Accreditation is defined as:
The process whereby the organizational and administrative
aspects of a board of health/public health agency, including program
planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, are measured against
peer-set principles and standards.
A principle is a simple and fundamental
statement of truth upon which are established more specific standards. A standard
is a statement of excellence, developed by peers, against which
conformity of the agency is evaluated. The principles, standards, components
and definitions are presented in 2 sections; Section I - Leadership and Agency
Management, and Section II - Program/Service Planning, Implementation,
Monitoring and Evaluation.
The standards for Leadership and Agency Management (Section
I) address the governance structure, responsibilities of the Board of Health,
administrative structures and procedures, financial, physical and human
resource management, public communication and continuous quality improvement.
It is important to recognize that flexibility in structure is often
appropriate within the agency in order to achieve stated objectives. However,
it is still necessary that clear lines of responsibility and reporting
relationships exist.
The standards for Program/Service Planning, Implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation (Section II) relate to both the service providers
and programs/service, including the MHPSG. These standards are detailed and
include: planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes and
activities, policy development and support, direct/clinical services, access
and risk management.
The accreditation award symbolizes official recognition of
excellence to the public, local public health agencies, other community
agencies, professional associations, local, regional and provincial
governments.
For a complete listing of the OCCHA standards, please
refer to the Accreditation Documents.
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