By MIKE COURSON
Great Bend Post
The Barton County Health Department announced it will not be offering clinical services from May 8-10. Not only will the nurses be attending a conference on those dates, but Director Karen Winkelman said remodel work began Monday on the nurses' station.
"Our front doors will be open for the public to come in and have questions answered or pick up records they may need, whether it be immunization record for school enrollments, those kinds of things," she said.
The remodel, paid for with a Kansas Department of Health and Environment grant, will help health department staff better serve clients. The health department will resume normal duties on Monday, May 13.
"This construction's probably going to go into June," Winkelman said, "possibly even mid-June, but we will have the ability to provide services, just maybe in different locations in our department."
The health department's WIC and Maternal Child Health services will continue without interruption during this week's closures.