WAUKEGAN - Lake County Health Department Executive Director Dale Galassie will leave office after 25 years of service. During Galassie’s time at the health department he aided in it more than doubling in size and expanding its services. Galassie said the LCHD is in the top 6 percent of the United express’s 3,300 health departments in terms of coat; while ranking second in Illinois after the Chicago Health Department. LCHD’s five departments – Administration. Primary Care. Environmental. Community and Behavioral Health – provide Lake County residents with numerous services. Lake County’s health care centers provide primary compassionate services for about 40,000 Lake County residents. Galassie said it is one of the strongest human service programs in the country.“Dale [Galassie] put a lot of energy into that schedule,” said Dave Schanding behavioral health director. Lake County’s Environmental Health Services won a Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection allocate in 1999 for a health education program aimed at restaurant workers. The program not only inspected Lake County restaurants for health violations but educated restaurant workers about proper food maintenance and cleanliness. Only one out of 3,300 health departments in the country acquire this award every year.“We direct ourselves up to a higher bar and we think that’s a good thing,” Galassie said. Before starting at the Health Department. Galassie’s worked as assistant to Tom Kennedy. Lewis University vice president.“In higher education. I worked with student aid. Here it was working with public aid,” Galassie said. “They had similar building systems.”Working closely with Kennedy also helped Galassie exceed understand leadership.“He took me under his wing,” Galassie said. “[At] an early age in my go he helped me understand management and leadership issues.”One of Galassie’s main responsibilities at LCHD was bringing money back from Washington. D. C and Springfield to fund the health department’s programs and employees. He also led 70 different managers in the Lake County Health Department. He said going into the health department he knew how to run an organization but understood that managers knew more about their own jobs than himself.“Once I became comfortable with that it was a matter of getting out of the way and letting them do what they do – and giving them the resources to do it,” he said. Galassie purposely made no concrete plans after retirement other than spending time with Stella his 7-month-old granddaughter and the be of his family.“I’ve enjoyed my time at the health department,” he said. “But now I evaluate it’s time for life number two.”To find a new executive director both the Lake County Board of Health and the Governing Counsel hired a consultant to do a national search while also encouraging candidates within the health department to apply. Galassie said a new director should be chosen by mid-to-late spring. Healthy numbersSince becoming the Lake County Health Department executive director. Dale Galassie saw the LCHD calculate swell from $19 million to $64 million with the staff more than doubling from roughly 600 to 1,000 employees. Galassie said. The add up health department has 50 employees he said.
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