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Kane County health department outlines tuberculosis program: daily observed therapy, contact investigations and state grant support
Summary
The county’s TB program reported 205 contact investigations year-to-date (500 in 2025), daily observed therapy visits and reliance on state local-health protection grant funds; the department said TB is preventable and curable and will provide follow-up death statistics on request.
Katie Glompf, the health department’s program support manager, gave a technical overview of tuberculosis and the county’s response capacity.
Katie said TB remains a leading infectious-agent cause of death worldwide but emphasized that it is both preventable and curable. She explained the difference between latent and active TB, the RIPE antibiotic regimen used in initial treatment and that active treatment runs at least six months and can last longer when drug resistance or complications occur. "TB is both preventable and curable," she said.
On local operations, Katie described the department’s daily observed therapy model—staff watch patients take medications in person or by video, deliver medicines when transportation is a barrier, and perform regular clinical checks because noncompliance can lead to multidrug-resistant TB. She gave workload numbers: as of the end of April the department completed 205 contact investigations this year (500 in 2025) and logged 1,315 daily observation visits in 2025.
Committee members asked for death counts and prevention guidance. Katie said she would follow up with local death numbers for Director Michael to share and reiterated prevention measures: N95 masks and limiting prolonged indoor exposure around symptomatic people. She also said TB work in Kane County is supported in part by state local health protection grant funding and that the department manages several funds, including opioid settlement dollars and ARPA allocations, which affect program budgeting.
No formal action was requested; the committee accepted the presentation and requested the follow-up statistics on local TB deaths.
