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Health department reports staffing changes, animal-shelter pressure and measles preparedness

3031634 · March 27, 2025
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Health department leaders told commissioners about staffing turnover, capacity issues at the county shelter after multiple seized dogs, measles-preparedness coordination with Logan Health and a security change at health administration.

At the Flathead County commissioners’ March 27 meeting, health department staff delivered a bimonthly update outlining personnel changes, animal-shelter capacity concerns, measles preparedness and building security adjustments.

Jennifer Rinkowski and other health staff said the department recently hired a community health manager, Rose Hash, and lost a nurse supervisor and a sanitarian who is moving out of the area. Rinkowski said the…

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