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Needham staff outline statewide ‘Foundational Public Health Services’ assessment, timeline and tools
Summary
Public-health staff briefed the board on the statewide Foundational Public Health Services assessment process, which will use cost and service-delivery tools to map local capacity and identify gaps across shared-service collaboratives.
Needham public-health staff walked the Board of Health through the state’s adoption and local assessment process for the Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) framework.
Why it matters: Massachusetts is adopting FPHS—standards that define minimum public-health services and headline responsibilities—and 51 shared-services organizations are completing assessments to document current capacity, gaps and costs. The work is intended to produce quantifiable data to support program planning, capacity building and funding requests.
Staff described two…
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