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Putnam County reclassifies health chief position and confirms Rian Rodriguez as public health director
Summary
At a Feb. 13 personnel committee meeting, Putnam County legislators approved reclassifying the commissioner of health post to public health director and confirmed Rian Rodriguez to the role. The change allows the county to appoint a nonphysician director while retaining a physician medical consultant as required by state regulations.
Putnam County legislators on the Personnel Committee voted Feb. 13 to reclassify the county’s commissioner of health position to the title public health director and confirmed Rian Rodriguez as the county’s new public health director.
Personnel Director Mister Eldridge told the committee the county had difficulty filling the physician-required commissioner post and “we would need to reclassify the position of commissioner of health to a public health director.” He said state regulations allow counties under 250,000 population to have either a physician commissioner or a public health director and that the latter model requires the county to engage a medical consultant through the New York State Department of Health rules.
The reclassification matters because Putnam County…
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