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North Central District Health Department board of health members learned two things Friday about personal protective equipment storage at the O’Neill Armory, during Friday’s monthly meeting in O’Neill. NCDHD interim director Liz Parks said efforts to dispense surplus PPE, including gowns and masks, had been exhausted. At the board’s Sept. 29 meeting, Danielle Roessler, emergency response coordinator, said she had contacted multiple schools and agencies about potential use of some of the PPE, in...
North Central District Health Department executive director Roger Wiese resigned Friday, prior to the district's board of health monthly meeting. Board chairman Kelly Kalkowski, of Lynch, entered the board room at approximately 10:35 a.m., and notified members Wiese contacted him after 9 a.m., submitting his resignation, effective immediately. In an emailed statement to Kalkowski, Wiese wrote, "I'm resigning from my position as executive director effective immediately. I've appreciated my time...
Following the North Central District Health Department board of health's Sept. 9 meeting, in O'Neill, one thing is clear: who controls employee's computer passwords. What remains unknown is if the department has a signed service contract with Norfolk-based Precision IT for technology services and what those duties entail, in addition to why health district computers are decommissioned when data is housed on a server and not individual computers. The answers may just be embedded deep within a...
The North Central District Health Department board of health faced several questions from some of its own membership, Friday, when the group met in O'Neill. Concerns about the structure of the board of health and powers granted to an unidentified executive committee, legal representation, the district's computer system policies and lack of complete inventory, were expressed. James Ward, a Cherry County Commissioner serving on NCDHD's board, asked what action was taken, and when, to form an...
At some point, most people have experienced sniffling, aching, coughing, stuffy head and fever associated with the human coronavirus. But symptoms of the common cold differ from COVID-19, a new or novel disease not previously seen in humans. Here's what is known, according to Dr. Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School: • COVID-19 first appeared in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 8, 2019; • Officials assumed the virus was caused by zoonotic - animal to human - tra...
