MORGANTOWN — Local health departments across West Virginia are scrambling to stay ahead of a legislative change that could disrupt their ability to charge for a wide range of permits and services under the environmental health banner. Senate Bill 17 will repeal the code sections that ...
MORGANTOWN -- Lee Smith had it all worked out. After a career in emergency medicine, the good doctor figured he’d throttle down, coast into retirement in a more leisurely role. So, he signed on to run the Monongalia County Health Department. Five years, he told ...
MORGANTOWN — The choices being made locally by public health officials in response to COVID-19 are not taken lightly and are certainly not without consequence. That was the takeaway from an exchange between Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Lee Smith and county resident Sam Morrone, ...
MORGANTOWN — When it comes to discussion of COVID-19 infection rates, the phrase “through the roof” doesn’t exactly paint an encouraging picture. Unfortunately, County Health Officer Dr. Lee Smith explained to the Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday, it’s an accurate ...
“We have collectively built a public health machine,” Dr. Lee Smith said Thursday to open his final report as executive director of the Monongalia County Health Department. And now, more than 20 months into the public health baptism by fire known as COVID-19, it’s time for some ...
Augmenting radiation training, skills intended to help Mon Co. Newsroom@DominionPost.com Dr. Lee B. Smith spent five days in late June, dosimeter in hand, measuring radiation levels inside the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine and the surrounding area, known as ...