Guam

Lead Agency:
Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services

2012 Funding (Year 3)

• Amount of funding: $250,000
• Description of Project
  Awardee will:
  • Complete a Human Resources for Health assessment to identify public health workforce training needs
  • Support the building of a user-friendly infrastructure for health information technology (IT) and other IT needs
  • Identify and implement performance and quality improvement initiatives
  • Collaborate with system partners to develop a work plan for conducting a community health assessment

2011 Funding (Year 2)

• Amount of funding: $250,000
• Description of Project
  Awardee will:
  • Develop health information technology and communications infrastructure
  • Establish a department-level Performance Improvement Management Office
  • Create, develop, execute, and analyze an overarching public health performance improvement management assessment/survey tool

2010 Funding (Year 1)

Component I

• Amount of funding: $100,000
• Description of Project:
  Awardee will:
  
  • Focus on building, institutionalizing, and implementing performance management capacity within health departments
  • Support full-time "Performance Improvement Manager" who will participate in a national network of performance improvement professionals supported by CDC

Component II

Component II funding was applied through Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA).