Elkhart Health Department Schools

Protesters from all over elkhart county gathered at the elkhart county health department and at the middlebury community schools administration building friday afternoon to call on health officer.
Elkhart health department schools. The first staff included a part time health commissioner public health nurses who visited in schools and homes sanitarians who inspected restaurants and dairy farms plus vital record clerks who kept birth and death records. Health elkhart county has been vigilantly responding to the pandemic and working to meet the different needs of its residents. Lydia mertz with the elkhart county health department is recommending students head back to school for in person classes. The elkhart county health department began in 1949.
Today the department consists of over 100 people including 70 full time employees working in five divisions. Additionally all athletics extracurricular and. The elkhart county health department is no longer recommending schools cancel in person classes for the first few weeks of school. Attending to the health needs of children that arise during the school day.
The following release was issued by the department on friday. Elkhart county health officer lydia mertz speaks to health board members via her laptop while at the county. The elkhart county health department wants to encourage everyone to take all necessary steps to allow our schools to reopen. Testing sites are available and there is a great deal of information about how to protect yourself and your family and slow the spread.
Dispensing medications and providing other medical assistance as ordered by physicians and authorized by parents. Health services full time nursing services are provided in all high schools middle schools and elementary schools. Today the elkhart county health department asked all public and private schools to begin the school year virtually until september 28th. Our nurses provide a variety of services including.
That includes wearing masks engaging in social distancing and washing.