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Adams County public health officer highlights vaccination gains, tick season and naloxone distribution
Summary
Public Health Officer Cody Przybylski told the committee the department remains a level-3 public health agency, reported high school vaccination rates near 90% and flagged Lyme disease as a top concern; staff also recounted outreach to migrant families, WIC activity, sharps and naloxone distribution, and plans to expand a Narcan vending machine to the hospital.
Cody Przybylski, Adams County public health officer, presented highlights from the department’s 2025 report and told the Health and Human Services Committee the department continues to operate at a level-3 accreditation standard. “Health and human services division of public health is a level 3 public health. This is the highest level that you can achieve,” Przybylski said as he reviewed the annual report.
Przybylski summarized vaccination coverage in county schools — reporting roughly 90 percent of high-school-aged students are vaccinated, 86.7 percent of kindergarten students and 81.3 percent of seventh graders — and said the department’s goal is to reach 90–95 percent coverage. He also listed the top three diseases reported this year as Lyme disease, chlamydia and influenza-associated hospitalizations and warned that the wet spring contributed to an active tick season.
The public health report listed several outreach and prevention efforts: a healthy-nutrition program that reached 350 migrant farm families; services to more than 1,035 farm workers during peak months; a first annual county sharps drive (about 180 sharps collected); distribution of more than 1,000 naloxone doses via a public-health vending machine; WIC caseload service (over 350 families served) and pediatric mobile unit visits twice monthly through a visiting pediatrician. Przybylski also highlighted community trainings: 39 CPR certifications and 82 naloxone administration certifications in the last year.
Supervisors asked about behavioral-health caseloads and were told the county has an on-site psychiatric prescriber about four weeks a month but that clinic caseloads are very high. Committee members also asked if the county had any cases of a newly mentioned intestinal disease; Przybylski said there were no cases in Adams County. He said staff are discussing placement of a naloxone vending machine at the hospital with partner organization Amplify and the emergency department to increase access.
The committee approved the public health report for forwarding/record (ayes were recorded and no opposition was voiced).
