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By John Estridge Franklin County Commissioners and the FC Health Board will announce the appointment of Dr. David Welsh as the county’s new health officer at a special joint meeting Tuesday afternoon, August 31. Welsh is a surgeon who works out of Margaret Mary Health and also Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg. Also, Welsh …
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By John Estridge There remains no health officer in Franklin County. Franklin County Health Board held an emergency meeting Tuesday, August 24, in a reorganization attempt. Three new board members joined the board, with two of the three there for the meeting. Another three current board members were there and one more needs to be …
By John Estridge The Franklin County Health Board is going to hold an emergency meeting at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 24, in the Commissioners Room at the Government Center. The county health department is in apparent disarray. One county health officer resigned after he stated he did not believe children and teens should receive the …
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By John Estridge About 1,900 COVID-19 vaccinations have been provided from the Franklin County sites, and there have been 35 deaths in Franklin County attributed to COVID-19. Those were some of the COVID-19-related facts concerning Franklin County that Franklin County Commission President Tom Linkel revealed at the commissioners’ meeting Tuesday morning, February 23. Earlier in …
By John Estridge Franklin County Council just finished a budget workshop for the 2021 budget where no county employees received raises and many council members expressed relief no one was laid off. Why, is a two-edged sword: falling revenue due to the pandemic and former councils who raided the county’s Insurance Fund for several years …
By John Estridge Franklin County’s COVID-19 Task Force is no longer meeting. On Fridays, the task force usually issues a press release through the Franklin County Health Department Facebook Page. Apparently the page no longer exists. And FCHD nurse Angie Ruther issued the following two-line email Friday afternoon, August 28: “The COVID task force is …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County has another death attributed to COVID-19, bringing the total to 25. Again, there is apparently no longer a Franklin County Health Department Facebook page to give any additional information on the 25th death. Also, Friday was the day set aside by Franklin County Health Nurse Angie Ruther …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County’s number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 went up by one to 24, while the number of positive COVID-19 test results increased by five to 270. Franklin County Health Department has always put out information on the gender and age of those whose deaths have been attributed to …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin and Union counties positive test results for COVID-19 each increased by one. FC’s is now at 265 while UC’s is 58. No new COVID-19-related deaths have been reported in either county so that remains at 23 and zero, respectively. For the state, the positive COVID-19 test results increased …
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By John Estridge with Indiana State Department of Health data According to the Indiana State Health Department’s COVID-19 numbers, Franklin County’s COVID-19-related deaths were increased by one to 23. However, the female in her 60s, according to the Franklin County Health Department, has some family members taking exception to the listing of her as a …
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