Oswego County Names Dunsmoor as Public Well being Director

March 17, 2023

The Oswego County Legislature appointed Vera Dunsmoor as the County’s new public wellness director in January and the New York State Division of Well being not too long ago confirmed that option.

Dunsmoor has much more than 15 years of public wellness practical experience, joining the county wellness division in 2007. She has worked in several roles all through her profession with the county, like public wellness nurse, supervising public wellness nurse, director of patient solutions and deputy director of public wellness. She most not too long ago served as interim director of public wellness.

“Vera has considerable practical experience in wellness care and has carried out a wonderful job in her part as interim director of public wellness,” stated Oswego County Legislator James Karasek, District 22, chairman of the Legislature’s Well being Committee. “She has demonstrated her dedication and robust function ethic all through her years of service with the wellness division, generating her an excellent candidate for director of public wellness.”

Dunsmoor’s practical experience incorporates operating with wellness care partners to merge wellness care with standard public wellness practices to increase wellness outcomes for residents as properly as managing each qualified and para-qualified employees to supply good quality and compassionate care to residents across the county.

“It is a wonderful honor to be chosen as Oswego County’s director of public wellness,” Dunsmoor stated. “Our wellness division performs diligently to market and defend the wellness and properly-becoming of our residents. We supply a wide scope of applications and sources connected to preventative care, wellness education, emergency preparedness, environmental wellness, youngsters with particular requirements and much more.

“I appear forward to continuing our efforts in these initiatives, operating with employees and neighborhood partners to create new public wellness tactics and major our division as we strive to increase the all round wellness of Oswego County’s residents,” she added.

Dunsmoor received an associate degree in nursing from Cayuga Neighborhood College just before going on to attend Roberts Wesleyan College exactly where she received her bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s in nursing education.

All through her profession, Dunsmoor has been involved with a assortment of qualified affiliations. She at the moment serves on the board of directors for the Weston T. Hyde Oswego County Educational Foundation and is a member of the NYS Association of County Well being Officials (NYSACHO) and the National Association of County and City Well being Officials (NACCHO).

She has also received a number of honors, like becoming named on New York State’s Public Well being Performs Honor Roll in 2020. This recognition honors public wellness workers who have helped make New York 1 of the healthiest states in the nation.

In 2019, Dunsmoor was awarded a mentorship grant from NACCHO in response to the opioid epidemic gripping the nation. The “Overdose Prevention and Response Mentorship Program” partnered her with a mentor in a county with comparable demographics to navigate efficient tactics for responding to the crisis. Amongst other rewards, the system reinforced partnerships with law enforcement, which led to the improvement of a Public Well being and Security Group. The group will concentrate on applying information driven tactics to lower overdoses and deaths due to overdoses to generate constructive modify in the neighborhood.

Oswego County Well being Division solutions are readily available to each and every resident in the county. For much more facts, stop by www.oswegocounty.com/wellness/ or contact the wellness division at 315-349-3547.