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Boone County Health Department highlights TB testing partnership, clinics and new interim partners
Summary
The health department reported a community partnership award from Clinton County for collaborative TB testing, introduced an interim public health administrator and a new public health nurse, and gave program statistics including vaccinations, latent TB cases and translated resource guides.
Melissa Hodgson Aslan introduced herself to the Boone County Health Board as the interim public health administrator for Clinton County and presented a community partnership award to the Boone County Health Department for collaboration on public-health initiatives, including TB testing.
Aslan said she has 30 years’ experience in nursing and has been serving in the interim role since June 3. “I am Melissa Hodgson Aslan. I'm a registered nurse of 30 years,” she told the board. She described local collaboration between the counties on public-health functions such as sharing county orders, industrial inspections and, specifically, QuantiFERON TB testing: Clinton County has served as a testing site that Boone County uses for latent tuberculosis infection detection.
The department also introduced a…
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