Today, I served as Edmonds representative to the Health District.
Last year, the 2006-2007 legislature approved more funds for Health Districts. Today, we budgeted those new funds, hiring new health care workers to provide better control for communicable diseases. According, to Charlene Shambach, Director of Community Health, “The strategies to be promoted will include an onsite school-based clinic to deliver the vaccines, health care provider vaccine recall to encourage and remind families to obtain the immunizations, and vaccine education to parents, schools, and health care provider.”
Our next action item was approval of a program where employees of the Snohomish County District will receive extra pay for being fluent in another language. The Health District spends a great deal of money on translators, which they must do in order to deliver good health services and avoid legal liability. With demographics rapidly changing in Snohomish County, giving employees an incentive to learn an extra language can save money for the health district in the long run.
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