Cortland County Health Department Strategic Plan
The Cortland County Health Department (CCHD) Strategic Plan for 2022-2024 will guide the department’s strategic direction and priorities over the next three years. It highlights key areas where CCHD seeks to make significant improvements to our internal processes and to the health and well-being of all Cortland County residents. The plan not only sets forth what we will strive to achieve, but provides a road map for how we plan to achieve it.
By making the Strategic Plan, and it's progress public, we hope to:
Increase transparency.
Highlight our successes in a measurable way.
Communicate our plans of action for strategies that are not on track.
Provide opportunity for the community we serve to give positive and constructive feedback.
Quarterly Progress Updates
View the interactive data dashboard that tracks CCHD's quarterly progress towards reaching year-end targets for the Strategic Plan. Progress updates also include quarterly highlights/successes and the steps CCHD is taking to ensure measures that are not complete or on track during a given quarter have a plan of action in place to ensure completion by the end of the year.
Learn more about the goals (what we what to achieve), objectives (how we will know if we achieved our goals), and strategies (how we plan to achieve our goals) for each of our three priority areas.
Priority Area #1: Public Health Workforce
Goal 1.1: Develop and maintain a qualified and diverse public health workforce
Goal 1.2: Build a supportive work environment
Priority Area #2: Communication
Goal 2.1: Enhance effective, engaging, and inclusive/equitable health education and behavior change communication between CCHD and community members
Goal 2.2: Increase visibility of health department services and improve understanding about the role of public health departments in the community
Goal 2.3: Ensure, maintain, and enhance effective internal communications between leadership, supervisors, and staff
Priority Area #3: Collaboration
Goal 3.1: Lead collaborative efforts with partnering organizations to implement, support, and evaluate Community Health Improvement Plan interventions
Goal 3.2: Improve alignment, spread, and capacity for CCHD Quality Improvement (QI) efforts by encouraging a collaborative approach that engages staff at all levels
Goal 3.3: Enhance collaboration with the Cortland County Board of Health (BOH) and Cortland County Legislature