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Buncombe County health board highlights hurricane response and readies community for respiratory-virus season
Summary
The Buncombe County Board of Health and Human Services reviewed its annual report, recounted post–Hurricane Helene recovery work and pilots, and heard a respiratory-virus season briefing stressing vaccination and monitoring of SNAP/WIC risks during a potential federal shutdown.
The Buncombe County Board of Health and Human Services presented its annual report and a respiratory-virus season update to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on the evening of Oct. 22.
The Board of Health and Human Services, led this year by Board Chair Dr. Dan Frane, told commissioners the board stepped up after Hurricane Helene to help the agency provide services and enroll residents in D-SNAP benefits, and continued backing a harm-reduction and smoking-cessation pilot that showed promising initial results. "We are structured as a combined health and human services board," Frane said, adding the board had created focused committees to deepen its oversight and advice.
The report noted one statutory board seat remains open (the engineer position) and three community-at-large positions were also open; the board…
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