VISION
Every South Dakotan Healthy and Strong

MISSION
Working together to promote, protect, and improve health

GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Serve with integrity, respect, and compassion
Focus on evidence-based prevention and outcomes
Support data-driven innovation
Achieve health equity in all communities
Demonstrate proactive leadership and strengthen partnerships
Exhibit transparency and accountability

GOAL 11
GOAL
Enhancequality,and effective
use of healthEnhancethe
theaccessibility,accessibility,quality,and effective
use of resources.
health resources.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
1. Increase screening for depressiona. Increase awareness of depression screening options andavailable treatment resources by 2025.
 Develop an internal communication strategy toeducate staff on 211, 988, and other behavioral
health resources by the end of 2023.
 Increase participation of Office of Child and Family
Health Services staff on the SHIP Behavioral Healthworkgroup from 0 to 2 by December 2023.
2. Increase knowledge and understanding of the impactof population determinants of health on public healthoutcomes.
a. Provide public health program staff with education torecognize population determinants of health and theirimpact on the health of South Dakotans.
 Implement ongoing population determinants ofhealth and cultural training for all Department ofHealth staff by the end of 2024.
 Review and update all disease prevention program
resources online and in print to ensure materials are upto-date, accurate, culturally appropriate, and address
the effect of population determinants of health.

3. Increase statewide access to public health services
a. Increase implementation of telehealth services to beavailable in all Department of Health field offices.
 Develop a standard Department of Health survey
measuring client satisfaction for those who utilize
telehealth services.
b. Increase mobile health services from 0 to 10 locations
by 2025.
 Implement three mobile health units to bringdepartment services to communities without a local
Department of Health office.
 Develop and implement a strategic communication
plan to promote use of telehealth and mobile units.
4. Ensure statewide access to emergency medical services inSouth Dakota
a. Increase access to Telemedicine in Motion for EMS
agencies from 60 in 2023 to 120 by December 31, 2024.
 Implement Telemedicine in Motion in ambulanceservices in South Dakota.
b. Implement three recommendations from the Statewide
EMS Assessment by July 1, 2024.
 Procure 6 regional service designation grants by July
1, 2024.

GOAL 22
GOAL
Provideto improve
publichealth.
Provideservices
servicesto improve
publichealth.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
1. Reduce high school tobacco use
a. Reduce high school tobacco use (cigarettes, cigars,smokeless, and electronic) from 30.3% in 2015 to 20%
by 2025. (YRBS)
 Work with media vendor to create materials andstrategies for educating K-5 about dangers oftobacco use.
b. Decrease the percent of youth grades 6-8 who have everused tobacco from 22.3% in 2019 to 18% by 2025. (YouthTobacco Survey)
 Increase outreach to 30 school districts to educate
youth in K-12 schools on tobacco prevention andcessation by May 2024.
2. Reduce infant mortality
a. Reduce infant mortality from 6.3 infant deaths per 1,000
live births (2014-2018) to 5.8 per 1,000 (2020-2025).
(South Dakota Vital Records)
 Identify three Community Health offices to pilot
syphilis screening and testing for pregnant womenby May 2024.
b. Decrease the percentage of infant deaths (post-birthhospitalization) that occurred when sharing a sleep
surface with an adult or other child from 69% (2017-2021)
to 62.1% (2021-2025). (SD Child Death Review)
 Identify three birthing hospitals in South Dakota willing
to become safe sleep certified by May 2024.

3. Reduce the percentage of WIC participants aged
2 through 4 with obesity
a. Reduce percent of WIC participants aged 2 through 4 withobesity from 15.6% in 2019 to 14.0% by 2025. (SD WIC-IT)
 Identify barriers to accessing services and retentionof WIC participants over the age of 1 through focus
groups with parents by May 2024.
b. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
among WIC participants from 62% in 2020 to 75% by2025. (SD WIC-IT)
 Offer educational incentives at yearly milestones thatencourage fruit and vegetable consumption by May
2024.
4. Reduce the percentage of school-aged children
who are obese
a. Reduce the percent of school-aged children who areobese from 16.4% during the 2018-2019 school year to
14.5% by the 2024-2025 school year. (School Height andWeight Survey)
 Promote the Move Your Way campaign with partnerorganizations and targeted population groups.
 Increase implementation of Harvest of the Monthby offering a funding opportunity to up to ten at-risk
community daycares, schools, and after-school
programs by May 2024.

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5. Increase vaccination rates
a. Increase routine childhood vaccination for MMR at
24 months from 94.1% in 2020 to 97% by 2025. (CDCChildVaxView)
 Use Medicaid Well Child Checkup program toidentify barriers to childhood immunizations in seventribal communities by May 2024.

b. Increase influenza vaccination among individuals aged
6 months and older from 54.3% during 2018-2019 flu
season to 60% by the 2024-2025 influenza season andamong individuals aged 65 and older from 67.1% during
the 2018-2019 flu season to 75% by the 2024-2025
influenza season (CDC FluVaxView)
 Increase influenza vaccination among state
employees through outreach, education, andvaccination events during the 2023-2024 influenza
season.

 Leverage the new immunization information system
to develop clinic report cards on vaccination statusof children 24 months of age.

GOAL 33
GOALPlan,respondto public
healththreats.
Plan,prepare,prepare,andandrespondto public
healththreats.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
1. Exercise emergency operation plana. Increase the percent of identified Department of Healthstaff who have completed ICS 100/200 from 16% (May2023) to 100% by December 31, 2023.
 Utilize TRAIN to provide ICS 100/200 training toidentified staff, to include ODP and EPI staff.
b. Ensure the Department of Health is prepared to respondto pandemic influenza by October 2023.
 Evaluate and report on the Pandemic Influenza
tabletop exercise.
c. Ensure the Department of Health is prepared to respondto an Ebola event by December 2024.
 Evaluate Ebola exercise and plan.
d. Increase number of Department of Health IncidentManagement Team members who have participated in anemergency operations plan exercise from 0 to 15 by 2024.
 Conduct three specific exercises to practiceresponding to the Emergency Operations Plan with
one exercise by June 30, 2024.
 Identify key individuals to plan the first exercise.

2. Develop and test statewide emergency capability plansa. Increase the number of statewide emergency capability
plans (chemical, pediatric, burns, infectious disease, andradiological) completed and tested through exercise from0 in 2019 to 5 by June 30, 2025.
 Schedule radiologic exercise.
b. Establish three key metrics from chemical event exercise
by December 31, 2023.
 Share results and key metrics from chemical event
exercise with Department of Health staff.
3. Establish data governance structure for the DOH
a. Increase the number of in-state healthcare systems that
submit electronic case reports (eCR) for all reportableconditions from 0 to 2 systems by December 31, 2023.
 Support onboarding and data validation activities forfacilities submitting eCRs.
b. Optimize Department of Health collective information
assets by 2024.
 Identify membership of IT Data Governance Committee
and convene meeting by December 31, 2023.
 Complete landscape of all the different data sources
into a single unified document.

GOAL 44
GOAL
Maximizeto address
underlying
factorsfactorsthat determine
overall health.
Maximizepartnerships
partnerships
to address
underlyingthat determine
overall health.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
1. Reduce suicide attempts and deathsa. Increase the number of contacts from South Dakotans tothe Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (988) from 4,185 in 2022 to9,000 in 2023.
 Assist with promotion of 988 by utilizing theDepartment of Health’s social media platforms.
 Disseminate 988 print materials to post in all
Department of Health local offices.
b. Reduce the number of counties that exceeded their tenyear average of suicide deaths from 25 in 2022 to 20 in2023.
 Disseminate population-specific infographics byDecember 2023.
 Utilize Data to Action to develop two success storiesto highlight communities taking action aroundsuicide prevention by December 2023.
 Provide technical assistance to the Department of
Health-funded entities providing suicide prevention
peer support services, data services, and suicide loss
response efforts.

2. Reduce unintentional or accidental drug overdoses
a. Reduce the number of counties that exceeded their tenyear average of overdose deaths from 15 in 2022 to 12 in2023.
 Partner with the Department of Social Services on
utilization of the state opioid settlement funds byproviding technical assistance to the three pilot
communities selected through the RFP by 2024.
 Provide training to all Department of Health staff onNaloxone administration by May 2024.
 Implement the Communities that Carecomprehensive prevention model across thecurrently funded five communities throughDecember 2023.
b. Increase number of Vital Records Case Management
records with autopsy results by 25% by 2025.
 Complete three regional and one online, in-depth
coroner trainings per year on Case Management
System and death registration.

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3. Decrease rates of sexually transmitted infectionsa. Increase Department of Health-coordinated syphilis
testing opportunities by 20% in 2023. (Baseline: 26
Department of Health-assisted screening events in 2022).

4. Assess the impact of medical cannabis on the public.
a. Present the annual report to the Legislature that gauges
the impact to public health and mental health by January2024.

 Contract with five entities to perform enhanced
syphilis screening of at-risk populations by May 2024.

 Re-evaluate and adjust the report based onrecommendations.

b. Expand the use of congenital syphilis campaign materials..

 Develop partnerships based on gaps in data Implement the distribution plan for the various
print materials and social media posts including key
partners and state agencies.

GOAL 55
GOAL
Strengthen
andsupport
a qualified
workforce.
Strengthen
andsupport
a qualified
workforce.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
1. Develop an internal recruitment plan to attract qualified
applicants to Department of Health positions.
a. Complete the Department of Health Workforce
Development Plan by July 2024.
 Conduct workforce needs assessment.
b. Develop staffing pipeline by July 2024.
 Establish partnerships with three post-secondaryeducation institutions to promote public healthcareers in the Department of Health.
c. Increase LinkedIn followers from 500 to 1500 by July2024.
 Continue content calendar creation thatencourages engagement.
 Promote Workplace Wellness, Healthcare
Revolution Summit, and other workforce-relatedinitiatives.
d. Maintain a careers page on Department of Healthwebsite to highlight public health career paths by theend of 2023.
 Integrate posts on social platforms to drive traffic
back to careers page.
 Develop baseline by monitoring analytics ofvisitors to careers page.
2. Develop a retention plan to maintain a qualified anddiverse Department of Health workforce.
a. Decrease the number of Department of Healthemployees that are considering leaving from 26.2% to20% by 2024. (PHWINS) Review PHWINS results to identify opportunities
to increase retention of Department of Healthemployees.
 Enhance employee recognition program.
b. Increase the percent of Department of Healthemployees that are fully or moderately engaged from76% in 2019 to 80% by 2025.

 Utilize TRAIN to provide basic HIPAA training to all
Department of Health employees by December 31,2023.
 Promote training opportunities available on TRAIN
for Department of Health employees throughmonthly email from Secretary of Health, employee
newsletter, and other communications.
b. Increase the percent of Department of Healthemployees completing job-related training to 80% by2025.
 Utilize Continuous Performance Communication
to identify training opportunities for individual
employees to complete during each quarter.
 Support staff participation in trainings offered byexternal entities.
 Support staff participation in leadershipdevelopment program offered through the Bureauof Human Resources and Administration andothers.
4. Increase healthcare workforce recruitment and retention
in South Dakota.
a. Develop a pipeline of healthcare workforce by the endof 2024.
 Host an inter-agency Workforce Summit.
 Explore development of workforce
pipeline website.
b. Conduct strategic analysis and environmental scan ofcurrent recruitment programs and gaps in rural healthcare workforce by end of 2024.
 Provide periodic updates on status of the analysis
and scan.
c. Increase the number of students attending healthcareer camps across the state by 10% by 2025.
 Market health career camps across South Dakota

 Promote policies that support work-life balance ofDepartment of Health employees.
3. Enhance training opportunities for Department ofHealth employees.
a. Increase the percent of Department of Healthemployees utilizing TRAIN from 27% in 2022 to100% by 2025.
 Establish training tracks customized to department
programs and/or roles.

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