Guilford County health department wins statewide award

GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Division of Public Health and fitness has been named the 2021 North Carolina Public Well being Affiliation Dr. Sarah Taylor Morrow Overall health Office of the Calendar year. This award is presented to wellbeing departments who have demonstrated superb and exemplary wellness initiatives and courses.

The wellness section was awarded the NCPHA Wellbeing Department of the Yr for its distinctive skill to provide COVID-19 services though at the same time addressing priority health and fitness problems in Guilford County. Dr. Iulia Vann is director of the Guilford County wellness division.

“Receiving this award is a whole-circle and historic instant for the GCDPH — as the award is named in honor of Guilford County’s very initially female Community Well being Director, Dr. Sarah T. Morrow,” Vann claimed in a information launch.

“When Dr. Morrow, who however follows us quite closely from her household in Wilmington, NC, found out that we received this award she said, ‘Well of study course they did!’ This is these types of a distinctive second for us and it is certainly an honor to go on the abundant legacy of monumental achievements in public well being in Guilford County,” Vann explained.

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Some of the department’s perform identified in the choice involves:

Guilford County Previously Incarcerated Transition Plan
Treatment administration for significant risk pregnancy
Addressing the requirements of local community users with housing insecurity
Collaborative opioid recognition and outreach endeavours
COVID-19 testing, contract tracing, surveillance, vaccinations, mitigation and a nationally acknowledged communication campaign.

Award winners obtain a prize of $1,000.