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Portage County health officials ask commissioners to formalize TB control role, seek $10,000 reserve
Summary
Portage County Health Department representatives asked commissioners to designate the department as the county’s tuberculosis (TB) control unit via an MOU or contract and to set aside roughly $10,000 for nonreimbursable TB costs such as housing and immediate treatment gaps.
Portage County health department representatives asked the Portage County Board of Commissioners on Monday to formally designate the department as the county’s tuberculosis control unit and to set aside roughly $10,000 in county funds to cover immediate, nonreimbursable TB costs.
A Portage County health district representative told commissioners the county is responsible under Ohio law for funding “TB prevention, control, and treatment within the county,” citing Ohio Revised Code 339.73, and said the department has functioned as the local control unit since the 1980s but lacks a current MOU or contract. Becky Bridal, director of nursing programs for the Portage County Health Department, described TB as “a class B illness” with epidemic potential and explained the department’s role in…
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