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Middletown health director reports disease counts, staffing changes and IT upgrades
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Summary
The medical director reported current counts for reportable illnesses and described lower annualized totals than last year; the environmental health director announced a staff resignation, pool-licensing work and a transition to a cloud-based HealthSpace system.
The Middletown medical director provided the board with current reportable-illness counts and operational observations during the April 14 meeting. The director reported 17 chlamydia cases, 6 gonorrhea, 5 chronic hepatitis C, 2 chronic hepatitis B, 2 acute hepatitis (C or B), 2 strep A, 1 streptococcus pneumoniae, 1 shigella, 6 pertussis (noted as elevated) and 1 campylobacter; the director said the annualized totals appear lower than the previous year.
"First off, we have 17 chlamydia, 6 gonorrhea, 5 hepatitis c, 2 hepatitis b chronic...6 pertussis," the medical director (S2) reported to the board. The director framed the numbers as routine surveillance and said pertussis has been relatively high this period.
Board members and staff also discussed other health items. A board member observed that among 11 indigent-services applications there were no reported drug overdoses; the medical director said that county-level overdose death counts appear to have decreased compared with prior years but did not provide supporting data at the meeting. "There were no drug overdoses," a committee member (S4) said; the medical director added that local rates were down compared with last year.
In the environmental health director's report, Missy Lee (S5) informed the board that an employee, identified as Nicole (last name not specified in the meeting), resigned and that the department is advertising for a sanitarian/registered environmental specialist. Lee said the department is licensing the city's pools, processing plan reviews, handling an overdue food-facility license for a bar that may face enforcement if payment is not received next month, and planning an IT transition to HealthSpace to move permitting and records to the cloud.
Lee also confirmed that the city health fair is scheduled for July 28 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Sunny Hill Community Center, across from Douglas Park, and that the director of nursing will participate in a "Stop the Bleed" event with Butler County probation on April 24.
What happens next: The department will continue recruitment for the vacant environmental-health position, complete licensing tasks for pools and food facilities, and proceed with the HealthSpace transition planning; no enforcement outcomes or hire decisions were reported at the meeting.
