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Board dissolves two advisory bodies and endorses move to community-based health coalition

2132360 · January 21, 2025
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The Board of County Commissioners voted to abolish the Community Health Advisory Committee and the Human Services Council and supported staff plans to transition their functions into a community-based health improvement coalition led by public-health and human-services partners.

The St. Mary’s County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a resolution dissolving the county’s Community Health Advisory Committee and the Human Services Council and supported a transition to a community-based coalition to coordinate local health improvement work.

Laura James Harris of the Department of Aging and Human Services presented the proposal and said staff and members of both bodies had discussed merging the two groups into an independent, community-based coalition. Dr. Mina Brewster, the county health officer, outlined the local…

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