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Essex County public health seeks national accreditation, cites GIS/AI and mobile clinics in preparedness push
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Essex County health officer Maya Harlow told commissioners the Office of Public Health is pursuing national accreditation and expanding services — including mobile pediatric clinics, a medical reserve corps and GIS/AI mapping — to improve emergency response, equity and routine screenings.
Essex County Health Officer Maya Harlow told the Board of County Commissioners on Jan. 6 that the county’s Office of Public Health is pursuing national accreditation and expanding programs that use GIS mapping and predictive AI, mobile clinics and a volunteer medical reserve corps to improve emergency response and health equity.
Harlow said the accreditation work aims to increase accountability and transparency, improve quality of services, and strengthen emergency response capacity. “We are going for national accreditation. We will be only one of two counties in the state of New Jersey to have full national accreditation,” she told the…
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