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If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> lhdaccreditation-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:lhdaccreditation-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom R ENGLE<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 03, 2010 8:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Divneet Kaur; lhdaccreditation@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [LHDAccreditation] Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Policies - I am certain that the PHAB reviewers assigned will come from organizations that have both management and represented employees and will know your dilemma; if i were preparing i would probably pick the one that covers the largest portion of my PH workforce and attach note there are other groups that have policies but the overlap is 90+% and the differences are trivial for this level of review.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pursuit - i also am curious who will be applying in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>te <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***************************************<br>Tom Engle RN, Oregon Public Health <br>800 NE Oregon St., Ste 930, Portland, Oregon 97232<br>9th Floor Reception Phone 971-673-1222 <br>Fax 971-673-1299 <br>Cell 503-806-2390<br></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:tom.r.engle@state.or.us"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>tom.r.engle@state.or.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/lhd/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/lhd/</span></a><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***************************************</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Nurses and the Environment</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://e-commons.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://e-commons.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Travelers' Health</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon Flu Info</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.flu.oregon.gov/Pages/index.aspx"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.flu.oregon.gov/Pages/index.aspx</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***************************************</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:14.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>>>> "Divneet Kaur" <<a href="mailto:dkaur@co.lincoln.or.us">dkaur@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> 12/3/2010 8:35 AM >>><br>Hello!<br><br>I was hoping someone could help me out with a question I had on Part A and the standards relating to personnel policies. We are running into the issue of multiple policies for each requirement. <br><br>For example in A 1.4 : Hours of Work, Benton County has a policy provided by the Human Resources department internally for exempted staff and one for the AFSCME Union employees also pertaining to hours of work. Finally, we have an ONA policy for these same criteria for the nursing staff. <br><br>My question is should we include all of these policies as evidence? We are not to provide more evidence that asked for, but each policy is relevant to a specific group. If we are to choose one policy, which takes precedence over the rest? <br><br>Also, I was curious to see which counties are actively pursuing accreditation this year? <br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Divneet<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>