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Health
department to celebrate 35th anniversary
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[MARCH 31, 2006]
The Logan County Health Department is set to
celebrate its 35th anniversary with an open house on Tuesday from
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. "This is also a celebration of
National Public Health Week,
which runs April 3 through 9," said Mark Hilliard, administrator of
the health department.
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The health department was established by a referendum of the Logan
County voters in November 1970 and first opened its doors during the
following summer. Thirty-five years later, the health department
employees 35 full-time and five part-time or contractual employees
who provide services such as WIC, public health nursing, family
planning, communicable disease prevention and control, Illinois
Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, home health care, Department of
Children and Family Services foster care, medical service placement,
health education, environmental health, asthma partnership,
emergency preparedness and response, along with a strong commitment
to the Healthy Communities Partnership and the Rural Health mobile
unit.
The open house, at 109 Third St., is open to the public.
[Logan
County Health Department news release]
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