1. Missouri and MLC-3 Institutionalizing Quality Improvement in Community Health Systems

2. Mini-Collaboratives: a Partnership Effort –Missouri Institute for Community Health –Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services –Heartland Centers for Workforce Preparedness –Missouri Association of Local Public Health Agencies –Ozark Public Health Institute

3. Missouri Mini-Collaborative 1 Participants

4. Scheduled Activities for Fall 2008 Kick-off Celebration Vetting the national standards: a statewide meeting Selection of projects QI tool training Keeping in touch with an internet forum and conference calls

5. Mini-Collaborative Design –Function for 18 months –Mini 1 consists of the Missouri NACCHO grant recipients –Mini 1 will mentor Mini 2 participants and prepare for accreditation –Mini 2 participants will be competively chosen based on application process

6. Goals for the Mini-Collaboratives Local Health Departments staff will apply just in time training techniques to internal and external processes and evaluate changes LHD participants will enter the accreditation pipeline Quality improvement principles will start to become institutionalized

7. What about the rest of the state? MICH e-letter will update on LHD accreditation and PHAB MDHSS representatives will meet with MICH to discuss state accreditation MICH annual meeting will showcase QI MoALPHA annual meeting will include panel presentation on accreditation Heartland Centers linking workforce competencies to accreditation Missouri Effective Practices Program going on-line

8. Lessons We Are Learning Already Take advantage of synergy Teams take longer but the results have more ownership Volunteers are incredible Set the goals high

9. Contact Information Kathleen Wojciehowski kathleen@michweb.orgkathleen@michweb.org Marty Galutia marty@michweb.orgmarty@michweb.org MICH Website http://michweb.orghttp://michweb.org