Who is eligible to apply for national accreditation?
The governmental entity that has the primary statutory or legal responsibility for public health in a state, a territory, a tribe or at the local level is eligible for accreditation. This includes state health departments, territorial health departments, local (city and county) health departments and tribal health departments. Eligibility is intended to be very flexible and inclusive, accommodating the many different configurations of governmental public health at all levels, including both centralized and decentralized state health departments, health departments that are part of a larger governmental agency, health departments that do not have environmental health responsibility, regional and district health departments and local health departments that share resources in order to fulfill particular functions More eligibility information is available at http://www.phaboard.org/eligibility/.
