Kitsap County Health District

2010 District Priorities

2010 Health Priorities:

The 2010 Health Priorities were derived through an evaluation of annual health indicators and with input from the Board of Health at their annual study session in 2009.

1.	Assessment
2.	Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
3.	Environmental Health and Safety
4.	Early Intervention and Prevention
5.	Chronic Disease Prevention
6.	Public Policy Development

2010 ADMINISTRATIVE PRIORITIES:

The 2010 Administrative Priorities were established by the Health District’s Directors at their annual retreat in 2009.

1.	Continue to refine annual work plans for all District programs to include a description of resources, objectives, activities, outputs, and outcomes, and continue the process of evaluating programs to determine and assure their effectiveness. The Director will review all Community Health and Environmental Health program plans to ensure that the District is addressing public health requirements specified in Washington regulations and laws.
2.	Continue work to better coordinate and make more efficient the District’s accounts payable and receivable, purchasing, and budgeting functions, to include more efficiency in producing accounting and budgeting reports, and to add the capability to independently issue vouchers.
3.	Establish systems that allow the general public to submit and pay for Environmental Health permit applications online.
4.	Build and maintain operational cash and investments, contingency funds and revenue sources to improve the District’s financial stability.
5.	Develop a process for effective public health policy development and implementation, establish a process to determine District public health policy priorities, and develop staff to accomplish the successful development and implementation of new public health policy priorities.