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Hartford HHS director details new respiratory-illness dashboard, CHIP work and accreditation steps
Summary
HHS Director Ebony Jackson Shahid told the Hartford Health and Human Services Committee the epidemiology division is fully staffed, the respiratory-illness dashboard will be presented to the cabinet the next day, and the department is finishing a community health improvement plan (CHIP) as part of FAB accreditation work.
Ebony Jackson Shahid, Hartford’s director of Health and Human Services, told the City Health and Human Services Committee on March 30 that the department’s epidemiology division is fully staffed and has completed a respiratory-illness dashboard that will be presented at the cabinet meeting the following day. “We are fully staffed at this particular moment. So we do have 2 epidemiologists for the city,” Jackson Shahid said.
Jackson Shahid described the dashboard as an interactive tool intended to give the public near–real-time case counts and allow users to cross-tabulate by race and gender;…
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