At the health planning council meeting on May 24, 2018 Commissioner Jim Hinebaugh raised the question about affordable housing in Garrett County. A discussion followed and the need to collect data around this issue is of great interest to the Health Planning Council. We spoke about different levels of need and homelessness was raised. It was an…[Read more]

Thanks to everyone making an effort to ensure our data is up-to-date! There is another level of inter-agency co-operability that’s required to be this responsive, your dedication is appreciated! The Performance Management Team is available to help with any measure that may be challenging for the group. Currently the Behavioral Health PM/QI c…[Read more]

Garrett County Gives Back Event:
Despite the cold weather we had an opportunity to celebrate with about 200 people on Thursday night! Officially, we had 163 people sign up to swim, and gave away 99 gift certificates. We had over 20 volunteers that helped make this event successful, sincere thanks to each of you!!! Now it’s time to plan the d…[Read more]

The invite for our Garrett County Gives Back event is in the UPLOADS section of this group! We need everyone’s help to get this distributed! We do have official approval from Garrett County Schools to distribute the flyer if we have any volunteers to cut and deliver let us know!

Are you ready to get moving? Help us reach our goal of collectively walking, rolling and moving in order to hit 1 Billion steps by April 8, 2018. Click the link and join our Thrive Team!
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The wisp is booking up and I will need to get the signed contract back to them by COB today. If anyone would like to explore another option please let me know before 4 p.m. If I don’t hear back I will move forward with the contract. Thanks & looking forward to a successful event

There is a temporary hold on the Crawford Room for Tuesday, February 20, 2018 from 8:00 to 11:00 am. The government rate for a “Mountain Breakfast” including two proteins is $11.00. The Crawford room does have updated AV equipment that we will incorporate for the presentation. The Health Planning Unit has a specific list of business leaders to…[Read more]

All is welcome to a meeting being held today at 10:00 a.m. in conference room C at the Garrett County Health Department to discuss a funding opportunity passed to us from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation learning community. This is a direct result of our county being a prize winner for 2017. Topic of discussion will be centered around ideas…[Read more]

We can utilize the 55 inch display from the health planning unit for the resource guide. Regarding the Learning Beyond the Classroom bus, I will check. Last year they did a special program so we could film them for the grant application but it was outside of the norm mainly because of the cold temps. It is always a great idea to have…[Read more]