Spotlight on Pierce County Public Health

Does your shared drive make you anxious? Are your policies and procedures all over the place, or worse yet, only in paper form? Learn from a local health department that decided enough was enough and tackled knowledge resource management as part of their strategic plan and PHIG work.

Presenters from Pierce County Public Health share examples and templates of how their team used quality improvement principles to clean up their shared drive, as well as how they identified a web-based platform to house and distribute key documents and trainings and hold them accountable for keeping documents current.

Please note: the software demonstration within this presentation is for educational purposes only; UWPHI is not endorsing the use of any specific knowledge management platform.

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About the Presenters

Headshot of AZ Snyder, woman with medium length brown hair and red shirt with white polka dotsAZ Snyder has been the Public Health Director for Pierce County since 2018. Her career started in international health, and she has worked on HIV, maternal and child health, and healthcare workforce development projects in Africa and Asia. AZ then led a team of epidemiologists in a local health department in the Baltimore, Maryland area before coming home to “Minnesconsin.” AZ holds a Masters of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Notre Dame. In her free time, she enjoys turning her yard into a native plant oasis.  

Headshot of Rebecca Tomasek, person with long blonde hair and wearing a cream colored sweaterRebecca Tomasek has been a public health nurse for Pierce County Public Health since 2015. Becky received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Becky’s work focuses on community health, knowledge resource management, having a healthy and safe home, quality improvement, and branding. Becky lives in Menomonie with her husband and two bulldogs. Her son is a nursing student at UW-Milwaukee. Outside of work, she enjoys camping, trivia, and traveling.