Curtailed Funds Continue to Hurt Local Public Health
Since 2008, local public health departments in the United States have lost nearly 40,000 employees, and the situation continues to deteriorate, according to the most recent survey, conducted in January...
View ArticleNation’s 3,000 local health departments need support to put the hepatitis...
The newly released Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Report from federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds Hepatitis rates continue to rise and local health departments say stepped-up...
View ArticleFood safety award from NACCHO for 2020 goes to Southern Nevada Health District
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local governmental health departments, announced that the Southern Nevada Health District...
View ArticleLocal health departments feeling the strain of coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 global outbreak is hitting local health departments hard with some having to cut inspections of restaurants and other retail food establishments, according to new data from a national...
View ArticleSurvey: Staff Cuts Still Plague State and Local Food Safety Agencies
If you thought the nation’s slow economic recovery would be enough to reverse job losses at state and local health districts overseeing food safety, you would be wrong. In a beefed-up version of its...
View ArticleNew NACCHO website offers more resources to public
A newly designed website to put more of its “rich array of resources and information” into the hands of its members, partners, and the public is being rolled out by the National Association of County...
View ArticleNACCHO presents Washoe County Health District with Crumbine award
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local governmental health departments, has named the Washoe County Health District in...
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