Gary R. Mitchell today unveiled a strategic plan for the Department's Division of Health designed to enhance the division's customer service. That kind of service goes largely unnoticed by the public, but it's the reason people can safely drink water and eat food, receive immunizations for various diseases, obtain birth certificates or carry out a myriad of other activities. Public health is a little different from the type of services provided by physicians and other health care providers. Individuals go to a doctor to be cured.
Public health works, through dozens of programs, to keep a community safe and healthy.
Over the next five years these goals will become our action plan, driving efforts to serve all Kansans. The department developed the strategic plan with support from the Kansas Health Foundation, soliciting input from a broad network of individuals and organizations committed to improving public health in Kansas. Because over the next five years these goals will direct our actions and we know that partnerships are key to sucessfully assuring public health services for all Kansans.