{"id":1619,"date":"2022-04-14T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2022-04-14T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:08:36","slug":"ready-or-not-report-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/ready-or-not-report-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready or Not Report for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/04\/Ready_or_not_2022_cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1629 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/04\/Ready_or_not_2022_cover-234x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/04\/Ready_or_not_2022_cover-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/04\/Ready_or_not_2022_cover.png 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>As <a title=\"National Public Health Week 2022 blog post link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/public-health-is-where-your-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Health Week<\/a> ended last week and <a title=\"Black Maternal Health Week 2022\" href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2022\/03\/28\/celebrating-black-maternal-health-week-april-11-april-17-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Maternal Health Week<\/a> begins, we have more public health news. The latest report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trust for America&#8217;s Public Health<\/a> is available online.\u00a0 The report rates the level of readiness of public health departments at the state level as well as in the District of Columbia in terms of public health emergencies.\u00a0 Like last year, we are still in a public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>In episode 451 of the podcast, <a title=\"Episode 451 - Ready Or Note? The Trust of America's Health Report Assessing States' Public Health Emergency Preparedness\" href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/headlines\/public-health-on-call-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Health On Call<\/a> Dr. Joshua Sharfstein interviewed the President, and CEO of Trust for America&#8217;s Public Health, Dr. Nadine Gracia.<\/p>\n<p>She describes the report and what changes have been made since last year.\u00a0 Below are the key indicators used to rate each department at a level of low, medium, or high.\u00a0 This year 20 departments placed in the high tier, 17 in the middle tier, and 13 in the low tier.<\/p>\n<h4>Key Indicators:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Participation in the <a title=\"Nurse Licensure Compact status for US states\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsbn.org\/nurse-licensure-compact.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)<\/a>, allows the nursing workforce to move readily across surge areas<\/li>\n<li><strong>New indicator<\/strong> &#8211; Comprehensive public health systems, percentage of state populations served by a public health care system<\/li>\n<li>Accreditation by the <a title=\"Public Health Accreditation Board\" href=\"https:\/\/phaboard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/emap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Public health funding trends<\/li>\n<li>Community water system safety, access to safe drinking water<\/li>\n<li>Access and use to paid time off, affecting infection control<\/li>\n<li>Flu vaccination as a reflection of a community response infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Patient safety in hospitals, percentage of hospitals with an &#8220;A&#8221; rating from the <a title=\"Leapfrog Hospital Safety Rating\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalsafetygrade.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Public health laboratory testing capacity throughout a sustained surge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Changes in a key indicator from last year:<\/h4>\n<p>Although <a title=\"Ready or Not 2021\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/TFAH_ReadyOrNot2021_Fnl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year&#8217;s report<\/a> was published also during this pandemic,\u00a0 one metric has been redefined. What used to be indicator 2, the percentage of hospitals participating in healthcare coalitions, has been redefined as the percentage of the state population served by a comprehensive public health system.<\/p>\n<h4>Special section: Lessons on the Pandemic&#8217;s Tragic Death Toll<\/h4>\n<p>A special section on the high death toll from the pandemic and how it could be avoided in future pandemics is also included.\u00a0 Policy change recommendations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing flexible and sustainable public health funding<\/li>\n<li>Modernizing health data and disease tracking systems<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring strong federal leadership and coordination with a senior leadership role in the administration<\/li>\n<li>Hiring and training a diverse and skilled public health workforce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, the recommended policy changes overall are very similar to last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 report is available at <a title=\"Ready or Not 2022 Report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022_ReadyOrNot_Fnl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ready or Not: Protecting the Public\u2019s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As National Public Health Week ended last week and Black Maternal Health Week begins, we have more public health news. The latest report from Trust for America&#8217;s Public Health is available online.\u00a0 The report rates the level of readiness of public health departments at the state level as well as in the District of Columbia&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/ready-or-not-report-for-2022\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,33,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-public-health","category-public-health-policy","category-regional-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}