After years of shifting leadership, San Antonio Metro Health hires new permanent director
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Claude Jacob has been hired as the new director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. He will start July 6./
San Antonio officials named a new permanent director of the Metropolitan Health District on Friday, after two years of leadership shake-ups at the agency.
Claude Jacob, 53, is the chief public health officer at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Boston-area health care provider, a position he has held for 14 years. He will take the helm of Metro Health on July 6.
His appointment marks the sixth leadership change at the health district since March 2019, when then-director Colleen Bridger was tapped to temporarily serve as assistant city manager, a position that later became permanent.
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Community Content Black Cambridge & COVID-19: Get The FAQs About The Vaccine : 2 p.m. April 1 and 1 p.m. April 2. Join hosts Cambridge School Committee Vice-Chair Manikka Bowman and former Mayor and City Councilor Denise Simmons for an important conversation about the COVID vaccine. They will be joined by Dr. Michelle Holmes of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Alisa Khan of Boston Children s Hospital and Tracy Rose-Tynes, associate chief, Clinical Services at the Cambridge Public Health Department. The series engages a cross-sector of Black leaders in the city of Cambridge, the state of COVID-19, and how the Black community survives the pandemic. Produced by CCTV.
The Cambridge City Council passed a policy order adding a provision to Cambridge’s Municipal Code explicitly restricting the use of tear gas in the city, while also voting down an order that would reinstate capacity restrictions for indoor dining in restaurants.
Following a tense debate at last week’s council meeting, Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler presented new ordinance language explicitly banning the use of tear gas and other chemical agents by Cambridge government entities including the Cambridge Police Department. Other cities including Berkeley, Calif. and Philadelphia already passed tear gas bans, and Boston and Somerville, Mass. are set to do so as well in the coming weeks, according to Sobrinho-Wheeler.
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Wicked Local
As the state maintains control over the order in which residents can be vaccinated, Cambridge must find alternative ways to prioritize its Black and brown communities during vaccination rollout.
Cambridge councilors adopted a policy order Feb. 3 that called on the city manager to create a plan, in partnership with the Cambridge Public Health Department (CPHD) and local affordable housing organizations, that will ensure “underrepresented” communities including Black and brown communities will be vaccinated in a timely and orderly manner.
As the city prepares for general public inoculation, councilors asked the city manager Monday to explore the feasibility of offering mobile clinics to bring the vaccine directly to residents in underserved areas.