Reprinted from the Health District's quarterly publication mailed to district residents (Summer 2010)
TOPIC: Health District Receives Public Health Hero Award
 
 The Larimer County Board of Health has announced that the Health District and its executive director Carol Plock have been awarded the 2010 Joseph Jabaily Public Health Hero Award. The award is given annually in honor and remembrance of the many contributions to public health and the selfless spirit of Dr. Joseph Jabaily, a Loveland neurologist who died in a charity bicycle race in 2004.

“The Health District of Northern Larimer County exemplifies the meaning of ‘public health hero.’ The agency steps up to fill gaps, to create links, to lower barriers and to offer support in meeting the community’s health priorities,” the nomination stated.

In announcing the award, Dr. Adrienne LeBailly, director of the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment, specifically cited the Health District’s role in responding to the H1N1 outbreak last fall.

“Nearly every one of the 18,000 people who were vaccinated through the H1N1 mass-vaccination clinics were in some way impacted by the assistance of the Health District,” said LeBailly. “Under Carol’s vision and leadership, the Health District stepped up from the start, offered assistance with planning, volunteer recruitment, staffing, and communications, and then worked side by side with the Health Department in key H1N1-related functions.”