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		<title>Cecil County Names New Health Officer with Top Credentials; State Opioid Program Cites Cecil as 2nd Highest OD Death Rate</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2019/05/cecil-county-names-new-health-officer-with-top-credentials-state-opioid-program-cites-cecil-as-2nd-highest-od-death-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 22:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County will have a new, non-local Health Officer with impressive educational credentials and experience in public health issues, taking over an agency that has struggled to address the drug crisis even as a new state report shows the county again has the second-worst opioid overdose death rate in Maryland. Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy has announced his selection of Lauren Levy, of Towson, as the new health officer, coming to the county from executive and research positions in public health with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and School of Law. She will replace Laurie Humphries, a veteran employee of the local Health Department, who has been the Acting Health Officer since Stephanie Garrity announced her retirement in mid-2018. Levy, who assumes her position later this month, will face the challenges highlighted in a new report issued by the state’s Opioid Operational Command Center (OOCC) that Cecil County’s opioid overdose death rate, measured on a population/ per-capita basis, was second only to Baltimore City in 2018 and also over a longer period from 2013 to 2017. “I am privileged to welcome Ms. Lauren Levy to this exponentially important position in Cecil County,” McCarthy said in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Homeless Count at 193 (Maybe), Health Dept. Says; Drug Deaths at 21 This Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homelessness in Cecil County is nearly as high as Harford County’s figures, although Cecil’s overall population is half that of its nearest neighbor. And county Sheriff’s Office data on drug overdose fatalities so far this year shows 21 deaths, well on the way to a record number, according to testimony to the Cecil County Council on Tuesday (5/23/2017). Members of the County Council and County Executive Alan McCarthy met with Stephanie Garrity, the director of the local Health Department, as the county’s “Board of Health” to hear reports on the annual count of homeless people in the county, required by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of federal grants programs to aid the homeless. Garrity said the one-time count, known as a “point in time” tally, found 193 homeless people in the county—an increase from the 167 counted last year. Health officials attributed the increase to a change in methodology this year—actually visiting three areas where the homeless congregate. Gwen Parrack, the health department’s “special populations” director and supervisor of the homeless people count, told the County Council that for the “first time” this year, the health department, using volunteers, made in-person contact with homeless people [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Health Dept. Asks $3 Million, Hotel Tax Delayed; Now Heavy Lifting Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 22:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of listening to department heads defend and explain their budget proposals, the Cecil County Council will hear from citizens next week and then the heavy lifting begins: deciding whether to accept, or cut, County Executive Alan McCarthy’s proposed Fiscal 2018 budget that would boost property tax rates and raise income taxes. Many local residents have already weighed in during public comment sessions at Council meetings, with schools advocates and teachers urging support for the education budget while a local anti-tax group has launched an automated email campaign to oppose the budget’s tax boosts. McCarthy’s budget would raise the property tax rate by 5-cents while raising the income tax rate from 2.8 percent to 3 percent. But the new budget proposal would be fully financed by annual revenues, for the first time in many years, and would not raid a “fund balance” safety-net account that was nearly wiped out by deficit-spending during his predecessor’s four-year term. In the final round of budget hearings before the County Council on 5/16/2017, the Health Department budget, and its key role in combatting the illegal drug epidemic and overdose deaths, was reviewed. The Cecil County Health Department is actually a state agency, staffed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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