Bedford
Board of Health and Health Department Mission, Goals and Objectives for FY22
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Editor’s Note, Jan 13, 2021: A full copy of the Board of Health’s message replaced the truncated version originally posted. The Bedford Citizen apologizes for this error.
Mission Statement: The Board of Health (BOH) strives to help neighbors lead healthy lives in Bedford. The BOH is dedicated to serve all residents and businesses of Bedford, particularly the underserved and to promote healthy people, healthy families, and a healthy environment through compassionate care, education information sharing, and disease prevention. The BOH will identify emerging public health needs, create needed regulations, set policy, hold hearings, and consider variances.
The Health Department mission is to PREVENT and reduce public health risks; PROMOTE a healthy community through vaccination clinics, health education, information sharing, and environmental mitigation; PREPARE the community by planning for emergencies; and PROTECT the community by enforcing codes and regulations governing tobacco and nicotine use, the environment and environmental health, food establishments, housing, sharps/needle collection and keeping of animals.
Description: Working under the general direction of the five (5) elected BOH members, through performance of statutory and regulatory obligations and coalition building, the Health Department Staff operationally execute their mission and that of the BOH for the benefit of all Bedford residents and businesses.