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Morris County honors Planning Director Joseph Borilla and recognizes Zufall Health Center’s 35 years of service
Summary
The Morris County Board of County Commissioners presented a recognition to Planning Director Joseph Borilla for decades of public service and accepted remarks from Zufall Health Center leadership as the county read a resolution honoring the health center’s 35th anniversary and describing its multi‑site services across seven counties.
Unidentified Speaker 3 opened the meeting’s recognitions by presenting a county honor to Joseph Borilla, described in the meeting as the county’s director of planning and preservation and a 30‑year volunteer firefighter with the Lake Parsippany Volunteer Fire Company. "Joe's leadership and dedication had made Parsippany and Morris County safer," Unidentified Speaker 3 said, thanking Borilla for his service.
The board then invited leaders from Zufall Health Center to present updates ahead of a formal county resolution. David Woods, identified in the transcript as senior vice president of external affairs for Zufall, summarized the nonprofit’s mission "to provide affordable health care to those facing barriers to care," tracing its origin to a one‑room clinic founded in 1990 and noting Zufall’s designation as a federally qualified health center in 2004.
Woods and other Zufall representatives described the organization’s current footprint and programs: ten sites and several mobile medical and dental units serving a seven‑county area; an eleventh site planned as a school‑based health center in Franklin Township (Somerset County); clinical services that include adult and pediatric care, women's health, prenatal care, dental, optometry, podiatry, behavioral health and telemedicine; and outreach for special populations including people experiencing homelessness, immigrant farmworkers and veterans. The presenters said Zufall provides discounted drug programs through a recent acquisition of Good Deal Pharmacy and offers free medication delivery across its service area.
Meeting speakers and Zufall staff discussed scale and funding. Figures in the discussion varied by metric; Zufall said it served "approximately 25,000 patients" from Morris County in one cited year and described larger cumulative visit totals across its multi‑county service area. Zufall told the board that about 30% of its funding is grant‑based, with additional revenue from Medicaid, Medicare and commercial insurance; nominal patient copays cited in the presentation ranged from roughly $15 to $25, and staff stated the clinic does not refuse care to patients without ability to pay.
After the presentation, Unidentified Speaker 3 read a county resolution congratulating Zufall Health Center on its 35th anniversary and thanking staff, volunteers and the Zufall family for providing regional medical and dental care. The resolution was presented as honoring the organization’s "outstanding commitment to providing essential medical and dental care to those in need." The transcript does not show a formal recorded vote on the resolution in the provided excerpt.
The board moved on to the rest of its agenda after issuing the recognitions.
