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Administrator
3700 W. Sovereign Path
Lecanto, FL 34461
(352) 527-0068 Work
(352) 527-8858 Fax
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I am honored to serve as the administrator of the Citrus County
Health Department and the CEO of the George A. Dame Community Health
Center. It is my commitment to ensure a quality public health
workforce that is dedicated to improving, protecting and promoting
the health of all people in Citrus County. Together, with all the
outstanding professionals who work at your Citrus County Health
Department/George A. Dame Community Health Center, we strive to
provide our community with exceptional public health and primary
care services.
The Citrus County Health Department has
four distinct areas of focus including Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, Access to Health Care, Emergency
Preparedness and Organizational Excellence. Our 2009-2010
goals and objectives are outlined below.
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Goals:
• Disease Prevention and Health Promotion through Clinical
Services and
Community Outreach:
-Reduce the percentage of adults and students who use
tobacco
-Decrease the percentage of adolescents and children that
are overweight
-Increase the percentage of 2 year old children fully
immunized from 90% to 95 percent
-Decrease the percentage of adults who currently smoke from
25.7% to 23.0
• Promote a healthy environment, through Environmental
Health Services.
Environmental Health impacts everyone, everywhere, everyday.
Our Environmental Health Team strives to prevent injury and
illness by managing issues involving human health exposure
and risk involving food, drinking and recreational water,
indoor air, land, animals, vectors, the built environment,
and chemical or radiological emergencies.
Access to Health Care Goals:
• Ensure Access to Health Care through Clinical Services and
Community
Partnerships:
-Increase access to primary medical care service for the
uninsured and underinsured
-Increase access to restorative and preventive dental care
to adults and children
-Increase access to mental health and substance abuse
treatment
-Increase access to low-cost prescription medications: Open
and operate community Pharmacy in 2010
-Monitor and plan for on-going health care needs in the
community: Perform a community needs assessment in 2010
Emergency Preparedness Goals:
• Prepare for response to natural or man-made disaster
through planning, response, mitigation and recovery:
-Lead agency for ESF 8
-Lead Agency for health response to radiological incidents
-Lead Agency for County Executive Planning Committee
-Operate Special Needs Shelters
• Protect Florida Citizens, visitors and infrastructure
through epidemiological surveillance and investigation, and
public health laboratory testing.
Organizational Excellence Goals:
• Increase the percentage of employees who rate their
overall level of satisfaction as "very satisfied or
"satisfied" from 70 % in 2006 to 80% by
2010.
• Maintain a stable proportion of customers reporting
satisfaction with the services they received (95%).
• Provide a fair and equitable distribution of appropriated
resources to ensure the fiscal integrity of the Citrus
County Health Department/George A. Dame Community Health
Center: maximize revenues and minimize expenditures in a
fiscally responsible manner through seeking and securing
grant funding, maintaining a cash balance as mandated by
state statue and maintaining GAP procedures for all budget
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