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Fourteen agencies now recognized by PHAB as high-performing health departments. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) announced today it has awarded five-year accreditation status to three public health departments. PHAB is the independent organization that administers the national public health accreditation program. Accreditation status was awarded this week to Polk County Health Department in Balsam Lake, Wis.; Summit County Combined General...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Decade Software Company, LLC, longstanding provider of web-based and mobile software applications for regulatory agencies, announced their newest client today, the Los Angeles Public Health Department. A $5.7 million contract with Decade Software Company will provide the Los Angeles Public Health Department's Environmental Health Division with a multi-department, environmental health system, powered by Decade's EnvisionConnect Software Suite....
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) presented its 2012 Vision Awards to the Ohio Department of Health, Texas Department of State Health Services, Florida Department of Health, and Oklahoma State Department of Health during the ASTHO Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. The ASTHO Vision Awards annually recognize outstanding health department programs and initiatives that use creative approaches to...
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sept. 13, Jose Montero, director of the Division of Public Health Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), was elected president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) during the association's annual meeting in Austin, Texas. Mary Currier, state health officer of the Mississippi State Board of Health, was reelected as secretary-treasurer at the same meeting....
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Distinguished public health professionals have been named to the selection committee for the 2012 North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Child Health Recognition Awards. These annual awards showcase exceptional and innovative programs that improve the lives and health of children in North Carolina. The selection process is managed by the North Carolina Public Health Association (NCPHA), who has chosen the following...
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) presented its 2011 Vision Awards to Washington State Department of Health and Washington Vaccine Association, New York State Department of Health and Health Research Incorporated, and the Texas Department of State Health Services. ASTHO presents these awards annually to recognize outstanding health department programs and initiatives that use a creative approach...
WASHINGTON, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the text of a joint press release by the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091022/USAIDLOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091022/USAIDLOGO) Begin Text: The U.S. government continues to lay the groundwork for efforts under the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI), announcing the first round of...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 13,000 healthcare-associated infections - illnesses that often can be prevented - were reported by Pennsylvania hospitals in the second half of 2008, according to initial data released today by the Department of Health. Such infections, also known as HAIs, are illnesses that patients acquire as a result of being in the hospital and did not have prior to admission. Many HAIs are preventable and account for an estimated 1.7 million...
More than half of non-smoking New Yorkers have elevated levels of cotinine in their blood "“ meaning that they were recently exposed to toxic second-hand smoke in concentrations high enough to leave residues in the body. Cotinine, a by-product of nicotine breakdown, is not harmful itself but signals exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. A Health Department study, published online this week in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research, shows that 57% of adult New Yorkers (2.5 million)...
By Pamela Hale-Burns RELATED» L.B. council to eye lagoon, Marina Vista Park project The Colorado Lagoon remained closed on Sunday after a closure was issued Saturday due to a sewage overflow that reached the lagoon. According to the Health Department, about 1,200 gallons of raw sewage flowed through the storm system and into the lagoon. The overflow was possibly due to a grease plug in the line. "This one (spill) doesn't affect us too much because it's starting to go into the off...
