Health Department-planks

* In the efforts to be more fit and with greatly improved wellness within my themes of this platform, a robust, exciting, well funded Health Department is necessary. This presents a major shift of focus where I care about the health of people in the county and others don't. 
* The Health Department has been ignored by the prior leaders of Allegheny County. 
** Dan Onorato has starved the Health Department. 
* The workers at the Health Department are under paid. 
* The facilities at the Health Department is a mess. On going repairs have not happened. Now a rehab of the site is necessary.
* The Health Department needs to stay in Oakland. Oakland is where we need to have a concentration of health care facilities, labs, and resources. We should not move the Health Department to any other part of the city or county.
* The hiring of five more workers to check on food businesses in the spring of 2007 was a joke. The workers were not to be on the job until the end of the year. Two workers had already left the department and were not replaced. Another had turned a retirement. The five new employees was just to catch up, not get ahead. 
* Some of the efforts of the Health Department can be studied, planned, made more robust, and then transitioned to the private marketplace. A county wide food inspector system can be accomplished, for instance.
** More details pending a podcast. 
==Links==
* Wellness
* Health Department
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