County Health Chief Endures
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He copes with budget shortfalls, accidental deaths at King/Drew hospital and demands for his ouster. By Jia-Rui Chong. Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, the embattled director of Los Angeles County&#39;s Department of Health
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By Behzad Raghian | October 8, 2004 | Page 2. LOS ANGELESâ public health care system is spiraling deeper into chaos after last monthâs announcement that the County Board of Supervisors plans to close the
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A Manteca man is the first person in San Joaquin County to test positive for West Nile virus. According to San Joaquin County Public Health Services, the virus was detected when the 35-year-old man tried to donate blood at a blood bank.
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Warnings of a possible worldwide flu outbreak have local health officials spreading the word: Get in early for a vaccination. County health officials say preparation is essential since the Centers
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 8--The health department on Thursday called for Palm Beach County to test for contaminants on a long-delayed golf course under construction west of Boca Raton, a move county officials dismissed as unnecessary.
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Montgomery County ponders investment needed to expand health care initiative.
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By Kathe Tanner, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep. 13--The County Health Department posted a health warning today at Morro Bay City Beach, an ocean shore area near the mouth of Morro Bay Creek.
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The state&#39;s executive director of public health and the environment is on the short list of people being considered to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Blacks continue to become infected with HIV and die of AIDS more often than the general population, and representatives of Marion County health organizations said Wednesday they will collaborate more to address that problem.
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Howard County officials are expected to propose a health network next month that would provide comprehensive services to all uninsured adults in the county. The plan places Howard at the forefront of local governments seeking to offer affordable health care to all its residents, local officials say.
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According to Dorchester County Health Department Communicable Disease Director, Lisa Lee CRNP, &quot;We are unable to schedule flu clinics at this time, due to the recent notification of a major flu vaccine shortage.
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The County Health Department has received 6,000 more doses of flu vaccine, administrator Becky Barnes said Thursday morning. She said that some of the vaccine came from Erlanger Medical Center and some from UnumProvident.
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As summer winds down, public health officials are keeping track of the potentially deadly West Nile virus. So far, Ingham County has been spared from human cases of the virus, and officials want to keep it that way.
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An elderly doctor has come out of retirement to keep the sole hospital in Pike County open after it lost a three-member medical staff. Dr. Hiram Ward, 81, who began his practice in the rural Arkansas county five years before Pike County Memorial Hospital was built in 1958, became the hospital's only medical staff member in January.
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By Linda Golz, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 12--The fight over access to water in southern Medina County has been waged for years.
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A 39-year-old Douglas County resident has the flu. The Douglas County Health Department ran confirmation tests on cultures Tuesday.
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A 5-year-old San Diego County child infected with the West Nile virus has developed the life-threatening complications typical of severe cases, but health officials aren&#39;t certain if