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Dr. Lillian Ney (photo courtesy of Jamestown Community College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Chautauqua County Board of Health<\/strong> President is expressing concern for the County Health Department<\/strong> with the departure of Christine Schuyler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Schuyler’s last day as Director of the County’s Department of Health and Human Services<\/strong> was Tuesday, November 29 following Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel<\/strong>‘s decision not to renew her contract.<\/p>\n

Health Board President Dr. Lillian Ney<\/strong> said she learned from local school district representatives who attended the Board of Health’s meeting Monday, November 28 that Schuyler was an incredible asset to districts in the county during the COVID-19<\/strong> Pandemic, “The State Health Department<\/strong> was changing rules right and left, and guidelines right and left. It was very confusing. It was a dilemma. It was a tremendous dilemma. And she (Christine) had a calming and common sense of approach to it that the schools really, really appreciated. And as the time grew nearer for her leaving, they were reaching out and saying, ‘Oh my goodness. What are we to do now?'”<\/p>\n

Ney said one of her concerns is that there are three major illnesses going on in the public health arena currently with the surge in Influenza A<\/strong> cases, an increase in RSV<\/strong>, as well as COVID still being an issue in the county, “And now we have a deficiency I say, I don’t know if that’s the right word. But we’ve lost two outstanding performers in the Health Department. One is Christine, because Christine is now gone. And Bree Agett<\/strong>, who was our epidemiologist, who is really outstanding as well, she’s now gone. And I just heard yesterday, much to my despair I guess I would say, that we’re losing another of our outstanding nurses.”<\/p>\n

Ney added that it is difficult to recruit people to work for the Health Department and that she prays there isn’t another major public health problem, “You know, to recruit to the Health Department at that level in terms of Christine’s ability and Bree Agett’s ability in epidemiology, how are we going to find folks like that in the county? Thankfully, Dr. Michael Faulk<\/strong>, who is a great guy, is going to be chairing the department. I think it’s on an interim basis for now perhaps, but more than likely maybe more going forward.”<\/p>\n

Wendel has said further details about the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services with the Department of Mental Hygiene<\/strong> are expected in early 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chautauqua County Board of Health President is expressing concern for the County Health Department with the departure of Christine Schuyler. Schuyler’s last day as Director of the County’s Department of Health and Human Services was Tuesday, November 29 following Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel‘s decision not to renew her contract. Health Board President Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[7381,394,3314,3410,10223,506,9930,868,1435,9944,1690,1802,12403],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Lillian-Ney-feat.jpg?fit=1060%2C503&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-cB0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48224,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/schuyler-out-as-director-of-chautauqua-county-department-of-health-and-human-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":48422,"position":0},"title":"Schuyler Out as Director of Chautauqua County Department of Health and Human Services","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"November 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The head of the Chautauqua County Department of Health and Human Services is out as the County plans to reorganize the department Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel announced that Christine Schuyler would be departing as Director effective November 29, 2022. 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