Announcing the Community Health & Safety Branch
An eventful new year lies ahead for Contra Costa Health (CCH), as we adapt to change in the healthcare landscape and within our department.
The time is right to recommit to our long-held promise to break down silos and better align our organization with how the public understands our services – care delivery, managing healthcare, protecting our community’s health and safety.
During months of deliberation with experts from across CCH in 2024, the leadership team discussed many ways to maximize every resource and better leverage our size and diversity, including updates to our department’s organizational chart.
To that end, we want to share an exciting improvement rolling out in January. Five of our divisions are merging into the new Community Health & Safety Branch, headed by Dr. Ori Tzvieli.
Most employees of the former Public Health, Emergency Medical Services, Environmental Health, Hazardous Materials, and Health, Housing & Homeless Services divisions will not notice much difference in their day-to-day jobs. They will do the same work and report to the same supervisors at the same workplaces.
The changes lie in administration, where decision making will be more centralized and better connected to the senior leadership team. Those division directors will report to Dr. Tzvieli, and will also share common support functions, such as procurement, finance, hiring and IT, where previously they each performed independently.
Employees who do that work for those divisions will soon begin meeting and collaborating to standardize workflows and find other ways to streamline and capitalize on this newly combined administrative structure.
The change also allows our deputy directors to focus more on our growing portfolio of significant administrative projects, from the unprecedented expansion of our detention health services to the large-scale, planned transition now occurring within our finance and operations.
We look forward to hearing your ideas and perspectives as we look for more ways to improve in coming months, and we will keep you updated on our progress.
Thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
Anna M. Roth RN, MS, MPH
Chief Executive Officer, Contra Costa Health
