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State health official presents accreditation to Monroe County Public Health; local health officer cites measles response
Summary
MDHHS liaison Laura Dela Rempellier presented cycle-8 accreditation to Monroe County Public Health for communicable disease response, immunization outreach and incident coordination; the county health officer noted a current measles case and thanked the board.
A Michigan Department of Health and Human Services representative, Laura Dela Rempellier, presented Monroe County with a cycle-8 certificate of accreditation for the county public health department and outlined the standards and recent responses that supported the accreditation. "The accreditation program has been in existence since 1997," Rempellier said, and credited Monroe County for timely surveillance and coordination on communicable disease events including an 18-day norovirus outbreak and a diesel fuel spill response.
Rempellier described water sampling and distribution of bottled water during the spill, immunization clinics run in partnership with United Way and ongoing work to improve vaccination access. The certificate was presented to Jamie Dean, identified in the presentation as the Monroe County health officer. Dean thanked the board and noted an active measles response: "It's here, and we're responding," she said.
The board acknowledged the presentation and the certificate; no formal motion was required for the recognition.
