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Health Department - continued <br />• Staff absences due to illness, injuries and position vacancies have affected productivity. <br />Cross - training of staff and other efficiencies have allowed flexibility to minimize service <br />impacts. <br />• The Administrative Assistant retired April 2013. A reclassification of this position to a Permit <br />Development Specialist, cross - trained for planning department functions, was conducted in <br />FY 2012 -13 to help support a migration toward centralized permitting. <br />• In the upcoming year, we anticipate purchase and implementation of new application <br />software to handle well and septic permits to foster a process that is better integrated with <br />planning and building inspections <br />• WTMP revenue is on target as a result of teaming with the County Attorney's office to <br />implement a protocol that has increased the billing collection rate. <br />• Revenues from new permits in the on -site wastewater and well program are on a slow <br />increase reflecting more activity in real estate, housing starts, and land development. <br />Activities not related to subdivisions and new building construction such as existing system <br />inspections, WTMP inspections, water samples, geothermal well permits, and mobile home <br />park inspections still place a high demand for services. <br />Personal Health Division <br />Major Services <br />• Investigation, prevention and control of communicable diseases. <br />• Preventive clinical services: Family Planning, Prenatal and Well Child care. <br />• Diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic health conditions for clients enrolled in <br />preventive services programs. <br />• Diagnosis /treatment services for sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis. <br />• Care coordination /management services for at -risk Medicaid eligible pregnant women and <br />children with special health care needs; post - partum /newborn home visiting services <br />• Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Self- Management Education <br />FY 2012 -13 Outcomes <br />• Received Best Practice for Surveillance & Reporting Award at the 3 d Annual Communicable <br />Disease Conference and TB Symposium for prompt disease investigation and timely data <br />entry into the NC Public Health Electronic Disease Surveillance System. <br />• Fully implement an Electronic Health Record system in OCHD medical clinics. <br />• Provided 1,240 vaccines for students and staff on -site at local public schools. <br />• Screen "baby boomers" at 3 worksites for Hepatitis C infection per CDC recommendations. <br />• Received $10,000 grant to implement program promoting HPV vaccine via peer educator <br />program at Cedar Ridge High School. <br />ligUp <br />