About the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation Program – The development of the NCLHD Accreditation Program was initiated in 2002 by local health directors across the state with support from the Division of Public Health within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.  The program became a legislatively mandated process in 2006.  North Carolina was an early national leader in health department accreditation and was the first state in the nation to mandate accreditation for local health departments.  Since the North Carolina program started, a national effort through the Public Health Accreditation Board has been established for accrediting local, state and tribal health departments based on the framework and standards of the NCLHD Accreditation Program.   You can read more about how the NCLHD Accreditation program was developed in the Accreditation Process Handbook (pdf).   For more information about the NCLHD Accreditation program, please click on the folllowing link:  https://nclhdaccreditation.unc.edu/