Nevada

How Southern Nevada Health District used QI Tools to Double Healthy Start Enrollments

Southern Nevada Health District used a QI approach to make small changes in their Healthy Start recruitment process, which doubled program enrollment.

Rich Hazeltine of Southern Nevada Health District speaks in interview.

Nevada Uses PHIG to Assess County Health Needs and Motivate Sustained Funding for Local & Tribal Public Health

PHIG funding enabled the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to partner with the Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) to assess county-level public health needs, which informed Nevada’s first-ever $15 million allocation to local public…

Mitch DeValliere, Public Health Infrastructure Manager

Transforming Public Health Through Nevada’s AWS Data Lake Initiative

With PHIG funding, Nevada’s Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) successfully launched its AWS Data Lake project in August, a significant innovation in data modernization. This new infrastructure has transformed how DPBH stores and analyzes…

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How Southern Nevada is Bringing More to the Table

Dr. Todd Nicholson, Workforce Director of the Southern Nevada Health District, shares how his agency used Public Health Infrastructure Grant funding to expand their Double Up Food Bucks program.

Todd Nicolson

Mentorship and QI Tools Help the Southern Nevada Health District Serve More Behavioral Health Patients & Eliminate Waitlists

Rich Hazeltine, Quality Improvement (QI) Accreditation Manager for the Southern Nevada Health
District, tells us how his agency transformed their behavioral health scheduling process after Rich
connected with a QI mentor at NNPHI’s 2023…

Rich Hazeltine