Public Health Worker Appreciation Lunch

MUSKINGUM COUNTY, Ohio- Today is National Public Health Day, and Muskingum County showed their appreciation with a special lunch for its workers.

A donation from The Straker Foundation helped fund the lunch for their 60 employees. 

The Health Department was donated money after their extreme efforts during the pandemic.

Corey Hamilton, the Muskingum County Health Commissioner says she hopes that the lunch is a way to bring all the employees together.

She let us know just how excited she was to see everyone back together, “we’ve been working a lot of remote in the pandemic, so we haven’t really all been back together as group since some of the restrictions lifted so its just nice to be able to come in and actually sit at the same table together and have have a meal together.”

This year’s Public Health Day Theme is ‘Public Health is Where You Are.’

The purpose of the Health Department is something that they are hoping to further educate the public on.

“I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding about what Public Health is, we tend to understand what Health Care is and what doctors and nurses do but public health– the whole purpose of public health is to try to create conditions in the community where people have the foundation to become healthier,” Hamilton also told us.

To donate or learn more about all the different aspects the Muskingum County Health Department offers, you can visit their website at www.zmchd.org.