Sentences with phrase «state health department official»

In 2013, a senior state Health Department official named Jim Introne left state government to go work for Sachs.

A state Health Department official said the department did not have any information about the location of the Onondaga County plant.

Nearly half of the 131 women killed between 1994 and 1999 in Utah were slain by husbands or boyfriends, according to a report released by state health department officials.

Hickey, who is credited with bringing the issue to light amid resistance from village officials, said he was shocked to hear that state health department officials were aware that the EPA had a preliminary warning of about 400 parts per trillion, but still assured Hoosick Falls residents that the water was safe even though multiple drinking water sources tested higher.

Most notably, however, the latest version (D print) of the bill continues to allow patients over the age of 21 to smoke the drug — something Cuomo, citing concerns of the State Police and state Health Department officials, said he wants to ban altogether.

State Health Department officials have issued a warning that people in the Hudson Valley and elsewhere in the state may have been exposed to measles at several locations earlier in February.

Many residents were brushed off by state health department officials who said they were limited from testing by time and funding constraints, according to the email from DiMartino, the EPA project manager.

New York State Health Department officials are in Syracuse this week looking at how SUNY Upstate Medical University is preparing to become one of two hospitals in upstate New York designated to deal with Ebola patients.

She said she has begun a campaign to help convince the governor's office and state health department officials of the shortcomings of Cuomo's plan and the need additional legislation.

The average American has 2 micrograms per liter of PFOA in their blood, according to state health department officials.

State Health Department officials will be on hand Tuesday evening at the Saratoga County Fair in Ballston Spa with information on tick - borne illness as well as avoiding ticks, Backenson said.

Not exact matches

In the Hawaii case, a doctor recognized the possibility of a Zika infection in the newborn baby and alerted state officials, the health department said.

In a press conference later on Friday, however, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine expressed frustration with Scott and the state's health department for keeping him and other elected officials in the dark about the island - city's five locally transmitted Zika cases.

Department of Corrections officials justify the soy - based meals as a cost - cutting measure, but increased health care costs and pending liability for not supplying life - sustaining meals have the potential to make the soy - based meals very expensive for the state of Illinois.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Officials with the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Public Health said they received subpoenas on Thursday.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with the Department of Health Canada and the Consumer Protection Federal Agency of the United Mexican States (PROFECO) have signed a memorandum of understanding that officials say will result in better regulatory cooperation and exchanges of information across borders.

Earlier this week, the state Health Department sent a letter to the Park District «strongly» discouraging officials from holding the event.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

Onondaga County Health Department officials are refusing to say where in the town of Geddes, which includes the state fairgrounds, workers found West Nile Virus in mosquito pools.

Four children in the state died in January of the flu, a contagious illness that has left none of New York's 62 counties untouched, state Department of Health officials said.

In fact, Judith Enck, the top official for the EPA in the Northeast, who has become increasingly critical of the DEC and the state Department of Health, told Investigative Post in 2013 that: «I certainly would not reach a conclusion saying that «the air is safe» in the neighborhood surrounding the Peace Bridge.»

Republicans also denounced the effort, and one anti-abortion group pre-emptively defined the new party as synonymous with late - term abortion because abortion law changes embraced by Cuomo would have delegated to a physician's scope of practice, which could be amended by state Department of Health officials.

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

Hickey said he was surprised to find that Saint - Gobain has been easier to work with than the state health department and village officials.

The grassroots survey, which is not sanctioned by a government agency, was announced Tuesday at the New York state Capitol, where Health Department officials in June released the results of a controversial study they said found no evidence of increased cancer rates in Hoosick Falls.

The request from the waiver comes after state officials at the Department of Health in August and, more recently, last week sent letters to Holder and his top deputy asking for permission to import medical marijuana strains to New York.

Cuomo, however, says he remains open to negotiating the bill even after hearing problems raised from both the State Police and officials in the state Department of HeState Police and officials in the state Department of Hestate Department of Health.

The state Health Department and village officials were widely criticized because they waited roughly 16 months — and faced pressure from the EPA — before they warned the public to stop drinking the water.

The residents complained that the state health department has not given them enough answers, and they are also concerned over a news report that said officials in the health department knew about the heightened PFOA levels in the water 18 months before they warned residents of potential dangers.

State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Public Advocate Letitia James, Assemblyman Guillermo Linares and officials from the Department of Health joined the conference.

Instead, the elected officials insist they were first notified last March about the contamination — though the state Health Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency informed them little could be done because the toxic chemical was not a regulated contaminant.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

«This ruling gives us more time to work with the Department of Health, elected officials and community advocates to develop alternative solutions that will keep LICH's vital services and good jobs in the community,» said George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU in a press release, who sought the restraining order along with the New York State Nurses Association, Concerned Physicians of LICH and others.

And long after village officials indicated concern over the detection of PFOA in the water — they requested advice from the state health department on what to tell residents — the department continued to assure the county and village that the levels of PFOA in the water were not harmful, emails show.

ALBANY — Officials in the state Department of Health were aware of concerns that the water in the upstate village of Petersburgh could be tainted with a toxic chemical in late 2014, but did not take action to protect residents until a few days ago, according to emails obtained by POLITICO New York.

Garvey said Dean's chief of staff Robert Mujica had her arrange a 2014 meeting between state Department of Health officials and AbTech Industries, the environmental firm that paid Adam an upwards of $ 10,000 - a-month for consulting work.

An engineer with the state Department of Health told county officials that they did not have to immediately report elevated levels of PFOA because the testing was done voluntarily.

The emails newly obtained by POLITICO show that on Dec. 26, 2014, state health department engineer Jane Thapa raised concerns to three other health department officials about the Taconic Plastics manufacturing facility in Petersburgh, ten miles from Hoosick Falls.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen will serve as a member, and four other state officials will serve as ex-oficio members: Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart; Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Mike Carroll; Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Christina Daly; and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Justin Senior.

One company, Far (m) ed New York LLC, announced it was submitting an application to the state Department of Health to become an official provider of medical marijuana under the state's program, which is due to come online in January.

A report on potential locations for a new $ 600 million Wadsworth public health lab under consideration by the state Department of Health could be completed within the next couple of months, according to the state's top economic development offhealth lab under consideration by the state Department of Health could be completed within the next couple of months, according to the state's top economic development offHealth could be completed within the next couple of months, according to the state's top economic development official.

Officials at the state Department of Health pushed back the deadline for accepting license applications has been pushed back to June 5 in order to handle the level of questions over the process.

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In early December, in defense of the state's reaction to Hoosick Falls, Kenneth Bogdan, the state health department's chemical risk assessor, told EPA officials that the administration's «professional judgment and risk assessment reflects philosophy, not science,» according to the handwritten notes Enck took of the phone call.

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

During the news conference, state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health officials reprised their explanations for the state's policy over the last year.

Certainly, lawmakers will question state and federal officials about the slow response to the crisis in Hoosick Falls, and why the state Department of Health assured residents they could drink their water for a year before reversing that position.

As the severity of the crisis came into clearer focus, the state health department still declined to take the lead in Hoosick Falls, preferring to leave it to village officials privately negotiating with St. Gobain, the owner of the factory the state later determined had been responsible for the pollution, emails show.

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.