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La Crosse County health dept. now one of 10 agencies to get accreditation
Took two years to earn recognition
The La Crosse County Health Dept. became one of 10 such agencies in Wisconsin to get a national accreditation.
Officials with county worked two years to get the recognition from the public health accreditation board.
“It’s a rigorous process that we go through to, basically, at the end to say we have a very strong health department,” La Crosse County health director Jen Rombalski said.
One of the requirements the county had to fulfill was to create an action plan for more outreach to the community.
“We have a performance management system that allows us to track various measures across our divisions and in the department as a whole,” Rombalski said. “We didn’t have that type of data before.”
Fewer than 150 government health organizations in the U.S. have qualified for that honor.