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Chair of KFL&A Board of Health to be honoured with prestigious award
Release Date: 5-Jun-2012
Beth Pater, chair of the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Board of Health since 2004, and a member of the Board since 2000, will be awarded the Distinguished Service Award by Ontario’s Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) next month. The Distinguished Service Award is made annually to a person who currently holds a position of significant responsibility in one of alPHa's member agencies, such as a Board of Health, and who has demonstrated exceptional qualities of leadership in his or her own community, has achieved tangible results through lengthy service or distinctive acts, and has displayed exemplary devotion to the public health system in Ontario. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Local Public Health Agencies in June in Niagara Falls.
“I am greatly honoured to have been chosen for the Distinguished Service Award for alPHa for 2012,” said Mrs. Pater. “alPHa is a wonderful organisation, and so supportive of local public health in this province. It is deeply meaningful to me to have this recognition from an organisation that I respect so much and whose work is so important to supporting public health in this province.”
The Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Board of Health comprises municipal and community appointees and functions under legal authority of the Province of Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act. The Board of Health is responsible for ensuring that KFL&A Public Health meets the Ontario Public Health Standards. The Ministry of Health and Long-term Care for the Province of Ontario develops these standards for public health programs, which address important health issues for all Ontarians. These programs and services aim to promote health, prevent disease and injury, and control health threats to human life and function, with the goal of attaining health for all.
“The Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Board of Health, under the leadership of Mrs. Pater, has been instrumental in ensuring that all residents of the KFL&A area have access to public health services,” said Dr. Ian Gemmill, Medical Officer of Health at KFL&A Public Health. “On behalf of the entire agency, and our staff and volunteers, I congratulate Beth on this prestigious honour.”
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Justin Chenier
Communications Officer
KFL&A Public Health
613-549-1232, ext. 1236
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