Washington health department investigating hantavirus cases, links to cruise ship outbreak

Health officials in Washington are working with local and federal partners on investigations into hantavirus infections found ...
WHYY

Pa. counties with their own health departments see benefits, new research shows

The Delaware County Health Department started operations in April 2022, when it became the first new county health department in Pennsylvania in more than 30 years. (Courtesy of the Delaware County ...
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Local health departments worry about government shutdown’s effects on staffing, disease outbreaks and nutrition services

The US government’s shutdown is shaking the nation at a time when public health staffing has already been reduced, the threat of disease outbreaks looms, and both the respiratory virus season and ...
WPSD Local 6

Graves Health Department launches GCHub recovery community center

The Graves County Health Department celebrated Friday the ribbon cutting of its new addition, GCHub. True to its title, the ...
Click2Houston

Houston Health Department loses $42 million after federal COVID-19 grants canceled in Texas; job cuts expected to follow

HOUSTON – The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is reaching out to counties using COVID-era grants to stop spending those funds as it evaluates $877 million in grant cancelations by the ...
1011 Now

Health Department receives national recognition for COVID-19 dashboard

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department received a 2023 Model Practice Award from the National Association of County and City Health Officials. The award was presented ...
The Star Press

Health First Indiana funding to invigorate, expand county health department

MUNCIE, Ind. − The Delaware County Health Department is on track to get bigger and wealthier due to the state's Health First Indiana program. County Health Department Administrator Jammie Bane ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

As temperatures drop, Cincinnati Health Department reminds landlords, tenants of heat regulations

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - It was 51 degrees inside Denise Durham’s Walnut Hills apartment when code inspectors responded to a complaint earlier this month. They ordered her landlord to fix it, which was ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

West Covina still wants its own health department, but the wait continues

In 2020, Dr. Basil Vassantachart contracted COVID-19 and spent two weeks on a high dose of oxygen in an intensive care unit. The ordeal left Vassantachart, a local physician specializing in family ...
Salisbury Post

RoCo Public Health achieves re-accreditation with honors

Rowan County Public Health recently announced that it has successfully achieved re-accreditation with honors through the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation (NCLHDA) Program, ...
Health Affairs

Not Only How Much But How: The Importance Of Diversifying Funding Streams In A Reimagined Public Health System

Revenue diversification may be a synergistic strategy for transforming public health, yet few national or trend data are available. This study quantified and identified patterns in revenue ...