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State guidance cited: essential local public health services and preparedness elements used to set minimum requirements
Summary
The committee’s materials cite the State of Michigan Office of Local Health Services and federal CDC preparedness guidance, listing essential local public health services (immunizations, disease control, food protection, water supply oversight, WIC, maternal/infant services) and emergency preparedness capabilities the committee used to assess minimum departmental requirements.
The committee’s slide materials list state and federal guidance the panel used to identify minimum requirements for a local public health department. The materials cite the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Local Health Services and a written response from Orlando Todd (Director) and reference the Public Health Code (Act 368 of 1978), the 10 Essential Public Health Services, and CDC emergency-preparedness programs.
The slides enumerate essential local public health services the committee was asked to consider: immunizations; infectious disease control; sexually transmitted disease control and prevention; hearing and vision screening; food protection; public water-supply and private groundwater oversight; and onsite sewage management. The document also lists program areas commonly required or accredited in Michigan, including HIV/STD services, WIC, children’s special-healthcare services and collaboration with state agencies on food-service and onsite-wastewater permitting.
Preparedness and response capabilities cited include community resilience, incident management, information management, countermeasures and mitigation, surge management and biosurveillance as elements of the CDC’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness program.
The slide materials identify these authorities as the basis for determining minimum departmental requirements; the slide deck does not record a formal determination or a completed minimum-requirements list, and it does not show a formal vote or board action in the provided excerpts.
