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Lyons, NE - October 1 marked an historic day for health care access in the United States, the day the health insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act opened for business.

Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI), a drug abuse prevention group that serves the counties of Burt, Cuming, Madison and Stanton in Nebraska, recently held a Leading Change workshop for its board members in addition to management staff of Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department in Oakland on October 1, 2013. UNMC Office of Public Health Practice facilitated the workshop.

Madison County’s first 2013 positive mosquito for West Nile Virus has been reported to the Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department. Typically West Nile cases in humans are reported as summer draws to an end during August and September. West Nile Virus is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito that was feeding on an infected bird. At this time no West Nile Virus activity has been reported among birds in the area. However, it is time to prevent mosquito bites and decrease the chances of humans being infected.

WISNER, Neb., - March 21, 2013 - Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department’s, Operation Heart to Heart program has reached over 400 agricultural workers in Burt, Madison, Stanton and Cuming counties since the program began in January 2013. The goals of the program are to: reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), provide innovative cardiovascular health screening opportunities among agricultural workers, provide free case management for those people screened who are found to be at elevated risk and to educate the general public on cardiovascular disease.