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Sweet Home Community Health Committee presents annual report, launches online resource list
Summary
The Sweet Home Community Health Committee updated the City Council on accomplishments including a new online community resource list, ongoing partnerships with medical students and mobile health vans, and planning for the annual health fair (third weekend in August).
Kelsey Ray, chair of the Sweet Home Community Health Committee, told the Sweet Home City Council that the committee has been codified for a year and is focusing on expanding access to local health services and public education.
The committee, formed in February 2016 as an ad hoc group, has helped bring medical-student focus groups from Western University of Health Sciences to Sweet Home, supported mobile medical services that provided no-cost care before the COVID-19 pandemic, and advocated for adding a Linn County Mental Health van to regular Sweet Home stops. Ray said the committee also…
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