The Douglas H. Fabio Quality Week is an opportunity to highlight staff efforts toward quality

improvement within Tarrant County Public Health. The following displays represent the Quality

Improvement Projects completed for the year.

#1 Consumer Health Division:

Decreasing food establishment inspections that are past due.

#2

WIC: Increase Exclusive

Breastfeeding Infants in WIC.

#3 North Texas Regional Laboratory:

Extension of the Coliform sample submission cut-off time.

#4

Health Informatics: Health information

exchange – increase detection of pertussis cases.

#5 Environmental Health:

Reduction of one incomplete OSSF permit per month.

#6 Public Health

Preparedness: Increasing public health

Safety Warden’s knowledge.

#7 Customer Service:

Increasing the number of WIC client surveys completed.

#8

WIC: Decreasing WIC call

center hold times.

#9 Adult Health Services:

Improving clinic patient flow.

#10

Travel Health Services: Simplifying customer forms to reduce completion times.

#11 Environmental Health/Vector Control:

West Nile virus program improvement.

#12

WIC: Increase WIC clinic high risk

follow up phone calls.

#13 Preventive Medicine Clinic:

Increase revenue from copays and fees.

#14

Health Planning & Policy: Increasing staff knowledge of Health Planning & Policy

activities.

#15 Community Health Promotions: Increasing immunization electronic

records requests.

#16

DSRIP: Developing a process for the distribution of DSRIP

funds for departmental projects.

#17 Epidemiology:

Increase the number of health care provider groups reporting

Notifiable Conditions.

#18

Chronic Disease Prevention:

Increasing staff’s knowledge about all services offered by

the Chronic Disease Division.

#19 Tuberculosis Elimination:

Improving treatment completion for people with Latent TB Infection when given a combination of

Rifapentine/Isoniazid (3HP).