OBJECTIVE 1 NEEDS:
The Health Department would need to hire a website developer to design and create a new website for them. I received a verbal quote from a local website designer in Traverse City, Legendary Lion, that uses WordPress, and they could charge anywhere from $1,500 to $4,000 to design the entire website. This does not include the cost to build search engine keywords. But because the Health Department already has a URL, keywords are already integrated into that.
Along with the design and creation of the website, someone in the IT department at the county would need to be trained on updating the website or potentially someone within the Health Department itself. There is not a measurable budget for this because of the unknown cost of the employees that would be trained. But typically speaking 1-2 hours of training comes with the creation of a new website from developers.
OBJECTIVE 2 NEEDS:
The forms are already created, they would just need to be built into the website. Therefore, this would already be part of the cost of creating the website, mentioned above.
There would need to be staff training on how to utilize the new platform and from experience, I know that the staff that would be trained to receive these forms make between $14-$19/hour.
There would not need to be any addition staff hired because these forms are already being delivered, it would just be a different method of delivery.
OBJECTIVE 3 NEEDS:
Appointlet is an online scheduling software that could be integrated into the website. After researching the cost, it would be $8/month/member for their premium service. Even if all of the appointments got placed into one email, this would be a minimum of $8/month.
Staff again would need training, but because these appointment requests go directly into a scheduling system, there is little to no training needed. This objective would need to be combined with their medical systems schedule and that would cost man-hours for their IT department to integrate.
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