Mary Homan collaborated with her long-time colleague (aka dad) on a recent poster presentation for NACCHO (the National Association of City and County Health Officials). Trying to squish an 8-week graduate course or 4-hour workshop into a poster wasn’t easy but we were glad for the opportunity. Look for us at APHA Monday, October 26, […]

The Homan Ethics Consultation Worksheet was developed to capture relevant qualitative and quantitative information necessary to inform an ethics recommendation. Development of the tool included in-depth literature reviews across multiple fields of study and extensive input solicited from internal and external stakeholders and experts representing numerous organizations. The tool specifically incorporates the validated domains of […]

Consistent standards, against which the nation’s approximately 3,000 state, tribal, local, and territorial public health departments can continuously work to improve the quality of their services and performance, forms the basis of public health accreditation. Accreditation by PHAB signifies that a health department is meeting those standards to provide essential public health services in the […]

Facilitation takes skill and finesse especially when a facilitator manages sensitive topics like fatality reviews or other epidemiologic surveillance. Recently an organization requested training of personnel who facilitate fatality reviews. Mary Homan designed a two-hour training session and trained 20 public health and public safety professionals in facilitating fatality reviews. She subsequently created a facilitator’s […]

Ken Homan and Mary Homan were invited by Hospital Sisters Health System to offer a full-day workshop entitled “Intergenerational Collaboration: Fostering Communities of Caring” for the annual Spirituality in Health Care Conference held at the beautiful Chiara Center in Springfield, Illinois. Over 75 persons were in attendance ranging from hospice chaplains, nurse leaders, retired Sisters, […]