The COVID-19 global outbreak is hitting local health departments hard with some having to cut inspections of restaurants and other retail food establishments, according to new data from a national organization representing more than 3,000
Continue Reading Local health departments feeling the strain of coronavirus pandemic
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local governmental health departments, announced that the Southern Nevada Health District in Nevada is the recipient of the
Continue Reading Food safety award from NACCHO for 2020 goes to Southern Nevada Health District
The newly released Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Report from federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds Hepatitis rates continue to rise and local health departments say stepped-up intervention on their part is now critical.
Continue Reading Nation’s 3,000 local health departments need support to put the hepatitis fire out
A newly designed website to put more of its “rich array of resources and information” into the hands of its members, partners, and the public is being rolled out by the National Association of County
Continue Reading New NACCHO website offers more resources to public
If you thought the nation’s slow economic recovery would be enough to reverse job losses at state and local health districts overseeing food safety, you would be wrong. In a beefed-up version of its annual
Continue Reading Survey: Staff Cuts Still Plague State and Local Food Safety Agencies
Since 2008, local public health departments in the United States have lost nearly 40,000 employees, and the situation continues to deteriorate, according to the most recent survey, conducted in January and February, by the National
Continue Reading Curtailed Funds Continue to Hurt Local Public Health
