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Board approves $24,950 texting platform to expand public health outreach and communicable-disease communication

3287497 · May 13, 2025
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Summary

Josephine County Public Health won board approval for a one-year service agreement with a texting platform (Educational Message Services) to expand outreach previously used by WIC to communicable-disease response; the board approved the contract 3-0.

Josephine County commissioners approved a one-year service agreement for a texting platform to expand communicable-disease communication and appointment booking by Public Health.

Public Health staff said the county already uses the platform for the WIC program and that WIC staff handled close to a thousand text-message interactions per day. Public Health asked to extend the same…

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