Tribal Public Health Accreditation Board Process Updates

The vision of White Earth Nation-Tribal Public Health (WEN-TPH) is that current and future generations will lead healthy lives grounded in our Anishinaabe culture. To achieve this vision, we work to promote --'wiikwazom'-- wellness, prevent '--gibichichige'-- disease, and protect --'ganawendan'-- health. WEN-TPH offers a diverse set of prevention programs and services in the community and our commitment is to continuous quality improvement to serve the White Earth Reservation. One of the ways WEN-TPH works to increase our capacity to serve the White Earth Reservation is by looking for opportunities that strengthen tribal public health performance to address health and wellness for our community members. National Public Health Accreditation is an opportunity WEN-TPH is pursuing to make enhancements to our tribal public health system and strengthen the impact of our public health services and partnerships. Currently, only five out of the nearly 600 federally recognized have public accreditation-White Earth intends to join this select group. The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) process benefits our community in the following ways: ​

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• Ensures traditions and values are honored and embraced, while also improving and protecting the health of White Earth community members,
• Supports collecting and protecting our own population health data for the benefit of White Earth Nation,
• Strengthens WEN-TPH’s ability to work with our partners and better serve our community,
• Encourages the use of health equity as a lens to identify health priorities,
• Increases WEN-TPH’s capacity to respond to public health emergencies and threats,
• Promotes a culture of quality and performance improvement, and
• WEN-TPH will increase its impact by achieving national recognition for quality tribal public health services.
• The WEN-TPH team has been moving toward accreditation by achieving major milestones and activities to date. Here you can learn more about the PHAB Accreditation process: https://www.nihb.org/public_health/accreditation_process.php