Health advisory council is still the wrong prescription for Lancaster County. A public health department is needed. [editorial]
THE ISSUE 'Halfway through a two-year trial period, the Lancaster County Health Advisory Council has produced two reports for the public — one on t...
THE ISSUE 'Halfway through a two-year trial period, the Lancaster County Health Advisory Council has produced two reports for the public — one on the emergence of measles in Ohio, and the other on a wave of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections that sprang up earlier this winter,' LNP | LancasterOnline's Tom Lisi reported last Sunday. 'That's the extent of the nine-member council's public-facing work. The two short summaries can be found in documents posted on the county's website , though nowhere prominent.