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Health Department details shelter upgrades, norovirus response and behavioral-health staffing, Rinkowski says
Summary
Jennifer Rinkowski, with the Flathead County Health Department, told commissioners the animal shelter has a vet tech five days a week and two veterinarians on Tuesdays and Fridays, the department is buying a generator and coordinating a new well pump with SIP funds, and behavioral-health staffing is expanding to support co-responder work.
Jennifer Rinkowski, with the Flathead County Health Department, gave the board her bimonthly update, listing recent shelter improvements, communicable-disease activity and steps to expand behavioral-health services.
Rinkowski said the county-approved veterinarian contract places vets at the shelter on Tuesdays and Fridays and that a vet tech is now on site five days a week to triage cases, divert animals for outside care and reduce staff burnout. "We do have the vet tech there now," she said, adding the arrangement has been "a huge help." She thanked the commissioners for approving…
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