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Wabasha County public health reports full compliance, expands community services
Summary
Tammy Fiedler, Wabasha County public health director, told commissioners the department met 100% of mandated MN Choice assessments within 20 days and delivered more than 2,000 client visits across home- and community-based services, maternal-child health and WIC, highlighting a local milk bank and new preparedness drills.
Tammy Fiedler, Wabasha County public health director, told the county board that the department met 100% of mandated MN Choice assessments due within 20 days and recorded more than 2,000 client visits last year across home- and community-based services, maternal-child health and WIC.
Fiedler credited her leadership team, naming public health supervisor Jody Johnson and HCBS team lead Katie Semling, and said the department maintained timely financial management across 16 grant programs. "We met a 100% compliance for our MN Choice assessments that are due, mandated to be done within 20 days, and we're one of the only counties who does that," Fiedler said.
Department figures Fiedler gave to the board include 1,697 client visits for home- and community-based services and 344 maternal-child health visits. She described expanded outreach through increased home visits, car-seat education and safety events tied to the department's strategic plan, and a county-coordinated breast-milk donation program that vets donations through a laboratory and fills requests ranging from neonatal intensive care units to families at home.
Fiedler also described preparedness and partner work: the department hosted a CARFIT event for senior drivers, assisted the sheriff's office with logistics during a missing-person operation, completed a full-scale radiation reception center drill conducted as part of a grant, and invested opioid settlement funds locally to expand prevention and treatment services.
The public health update included the county's community health needs assessment and the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), completed in partnership with Amplify after an almost nine-month process. Fiedler said staff also sustain regular public communication with a monthly newspaper article submitted to each county paper.
Board members thanked Fiedler and asked no substantive follow-up questions at the time. The board then moved on to administrator updates and other routine business.
