Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department Director Dan Partridge, second from right, takes notes during the Public Health System Assessment on Dec. 9 in the Community Health Facility, 200 Maine. About 60 people participated in the all-day assessment. The health department released the results late Friday. It learned the local public health system was lacking in three areas: mobilizing partnerships, evaluating services and having a confident work force.
Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department director Dan Partridge will be available Wednesday, Feb. 22, to discuss the department’s services and role in community health.
He will be participating in an online chat at 11 a.m. on WellCommons.com. You can submit questions anytime at WellCommons/chats. Make sure to log back to WellCommons.com during or after the chat to see if your question was answered.
The department is gathering information from the public about its health concerns through focus groups, an online survey and one-on-one interviews so it can do a better job of providing services.
Partridge has spent nearly 20 years in public health and became the director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department in 2007.
He previously served as director of administrative services for the Reno County Health Department in Hutchinson, where he also served as director of environmental health and as an environmental health sanitarian.
He has bachelor’s degrees in fisheries biology and chemical science and milling science and management from Kansas State University. He obtained a master’s degree in public health from the Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita in 2007.
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