{"id":36772,"date":"2022-10-14T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=36772"},"modified":"2022-10-14T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:43:14","slug":"genesee-orleans-health-department-celebrates-10-year-cross-jurisdictional-shared-services-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/14\/genesee-orleans-health-department-celebrates-10-year-cross-jurisdictional-shared-services-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"GENESEE\/ORLEANS\/Health Department celebrates 10 year cross-jurisdictional shared services relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Genesee and Orleans County Health Departments (GO Health) are celebrating 10 years of working collaboratively through their cross-jurisdictional shared services arrangement. This initiative was the first of its kind in New York State and is at the forefront of providing best practices for local governments looking to become more efficient through sharing services.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The shared services began as a PILOT project for two years and was part of a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that helped establish the Center of Sharing Public Health Services (www.phsharing.org). Following the first two years, the benefits, both fiscally and operationally have resulted in an ongoing agreement by Genesee and Orleans Counties to continue forward with sharing public health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Genesee County Legislature saw this collaboration as an opportunity for our residents to be served by high quality staff, which is key to improving the quality of healthy living in Genesee and Orleans Counties,\u201d stated Shelley Stein, Genesee County Legislative Chair. \u201cSince the beginning of this venture, both counties have made significant progress and now have shared services with the Youth Bureau and Weights and Measures. These shared services reduce local taxes and lower cost of governments. Additionally, across New York State our best practices and case studies have been studied by other counties seeking to cut costs for their residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe cross-jurisdictional collaboration to create the shared Genesee and Orleans County Health Departments, now known as GO Health, was a transforming idea of two legislative bodies,\u201d stated Lynne Johnson, Orleans County Legislative Chair. \u201cThis would not have been achieved if it weren\u2019t for the faith we had in Public Health Director, Paul Pettit to lead the initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The support and technical assistance of the Center for Sharing Public Health Services for our integrated health departments helped identify the value for our leaders and provide the financial support to jump-start the collaboration. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) also added their support to the pilot project of joining resources, which lead to the benefit of residents in both of our counties, and is key to our ongoing success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working together has helped fill workforce gaps, provide natural redundancy and attract additional candidates for vacant positions. The public health staff in both counties have become more creative and have worked together on several joint projects, including, but not limited to, a joint strategic plan, workforce development plan, quality improvement, branding and communication plan, and working on a joint application to become nationally accredited through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) as GO Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This collaboration has also seen an increase in the services we are able to offer our residents due to the ability to be more competitive with grant applications with a combined population of almost 100,000 residents. GO Health has been very successful in applying for and receiving approximately $7,500,000 dollars in grant funds since we began joint applications 10 years ago. These funds have helped to reduce county costs while enhancing services to county residents. GO Health has regionalized service delivery further and is also the recipient of a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Lead Poisoning Prevention and Remediation grant in collaboration with Wyoming and Livingston Counties (GLOW region). These lead grants are going to assist residents to reduce lead poisoning and remediate hazards in their homes. GO Health has also benefited from three CDC Public Health Associate Program fellows that spend a two-year assignment working in both counties at little cost to the counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeing all that we have accomplished over the past 10 years shows that our initial goals were on target,\u201d stated Paul Pettit, Public Health Director of GO Health. \u201cWe continue to look at innovative ways to advance our collaboration, drive efficiencies, and be fiscally responsible. Where we are today with our integrated operations is a testament to the buy in and hard work of our county administration, the GO Health leadership team, and all the public health staff. The staff have been instrumental in the success of our work as they operate as a team, share ideas, deliver services, and promote health as a cohesive unit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 pandemic response put our integrated departments to the test. Having the ability to work together through sharing employees helped balance the surges over the past couple of years and was essential to meet the needs of contact tracing, administering COVID-19 testing and eventually vaccinations in both counties. One of the most effective benefits of our shared response was with public communications and messaging which allowed us to reduce redundancies and leverage staffing to push information across our shared media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press release The Genesee and Orleans County Health Departments (GO Health) are celebrating 10 years of working collaboratively through their cross-jurisdictional shared services arrangement. This initiative was the first of its kind in New York State and is at the forefront of providing best practices for local governments looking to \u2026<\/p>\n

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