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Committee directs health staff to explore heat‑death tracking and best practices after staff briefing
Summary
Metro Health and resilience staff briefed the committee on existing heat-illness dashboards and resilience work; the Governance Committee referred a CCR asking for standardized tracking of heat-related illnesses and deaths to the Community Health Committee for further study and potential partnership with UT Health Science Center.
The Governance Committee voted to send to the Community Health Committee a council consideration request asking Metro Health to explore standardized tracking of heat-related illnesses and deaths and to examine best practices from other jurisdictions.
Metro Health staff outlined existing local resources: a weekly heat-related illness…
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