Board of Commissioners of Cook County - Meeting of Health & Hospitals Committee on 10/5/2021 at 12:00 PM

21-0541

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:28:26 GMT

File #: 21-0541
Ver.: 2
Agenda #:
Type: Resolution
Title: SUBMITTING A PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE #21-0541 (Health and Hospitals Committee 1/26/2021) PROPOSED RESOLUTION REQUESTING A MEETING OF THE COOK COUNTY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS COMMITTEE TO RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM THE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH ON THEIR COVID-19 MASS IMMUNIZATION PLANS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY WHEREAS, on January 27, 2020, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services declared that COVID-19, a respiratory illness spread by close contact through respiratory droplets, presents a public health emergency, and the World Health Organization characterized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on March 11, 2020; and WHEREAS, COVID-19 continues to be a serious threat across the U.S. and Cook County, and WHEREAS, many hospitals across the U.S. already have a higher load of COVID-19 patients than ever before since the pandemic began, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Robert Redfield, warned last month that the next few months of the pandemic would be among “the most difficult in the public health
Action: defer
Result: Pass

21-5290

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:39:17 GMT

File #: 21-5290
Ver.: 1
Agenda #:
Type: Resolution
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE ITEM # 21-5290- DECLARING MENTAL HEALTH A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS WHEREAS, Public Health Awareness raises awareness of the relationship between the health of individuals and the health of their communities; and WHEREAS, behavioral health is a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being including substance use disorders; and WHEREAS, in light of the pandemic we have seen a rise in the use of and need for behavioral health services across the United States; and WHEREAS ,according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness and 1 in 2o have a serious mental illness; and WHEREAS, according to NAMI, people with serious mental illness have an increased risk for chronic disease, like diabetes or cancer, 18% of U.S. adults with mental illness also have a substance use disorder, 21% of people experiencing homelessness also have a serious mental illness, 1 in 8 of all visits to U.S. emergency departments are related to mental and substance use disorders, and WHEREAS
Action: accept as substituted
Result: Pass

21-5290

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:39:21 GMT