The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention will spend the next year reorganizing its departments, operations and management to become more effective and to improve efficiency.
Among the changes:
* Centralizing operations for human resources, budget and fiscal accountability, quality assurance and performance improvement, policy analysis and other areas rather than having each division be responsible for its own.
* Moving the substance-abuse prevention team from the Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services to the CDC’s prevention team to focus on alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
* Moving medical facility licensing and certification from a state division to a CDC division.
* Forming the Office of Disease Control and Prevention to unify the divisions of disease control and disease prevention.
The CDC has spent nearly eight months planning the reorganization.
“Like every effective organization, it is important from time to time to evaluate whether the organization’s structure continues to be efficient, effective and in alignment with the strategic objectives of the Department of Health and Human Services,” CDC Director Kenneth Albert said in an email.
CDC leaders have shared the plan with staff members. Transitions will be managed in phases over the next year.
Albert said there will be no jobs lost in the reorganization.
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