On May 19, 2023, AppHealthCare was awarded reaccreditation with honors status by the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation (NCLHDA) Board.
North Carolina is the first state in the country to mandate accreditation for its local health departments. The purpose of the accreditation program is to assure a basic level of capacity and services in each of the local health departments across the state.
The process of accreditation includes three major components – a self-assessment completed by the agency, a site visit by a multidisciplinary team of peers to review performance standards, and determination of accreditation status by an independent Accreditation Board comprised of state and local public health officials, Board of Health members, County Commissioners, and at large members.
In order to achieve reaccreditation with honors designation, AppHealthCare excelled in their accreditation assessment by missing one or less activities within each of five standards set by the NCLHDA program.
The NC Local Health Department Accreditation program is a collaboration of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health (part of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and the North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors.
Learn more about accreditation by visiting the NC Local Health Department Accreditation.