Western UP Health Department

Leading The Community Toward Better Health

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Love your community and share your thoughts. We hope that the information we gather in this survey will allow us to make the changes needed for our community to live their best lives. We want to turn hope into resiliency. Hope fuels change. Below you will find a flyer that has a QR code reader…

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Michigan food establishments must employ at least one full-time certified food manager who actively manages the food service operations at least 30 hours per week. In order to become a certified food safety manager, a person must attend an accredited program through the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) and successfully pass a proctored exam. A…

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Proposed U.P. Environmental Health Code

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In March, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program is joining with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to encourage Michiganders to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits during National Nutrition Month.  The 2023 theme, Fuel…

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The public hearing scheduled for 5:30 PM ET and the regular monthly meeting scheduled for 6:00 PM ET on Monday, February 27, 2023, have been relocated to Michigan Tech Lakeshore Center Community Room, 600 E. Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, MI 49931. Both meetings will be available via Google Meet. Information on connecting to either of these…

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Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon Counties, MI – The Western Upper PeninsulaHealth Department (WUPHD) has scheduled a public hearing on February 27th, at 5:30 PM (ET) to hearpublic comments on the proposed Upper Peninsula Environmental Health Code. The proposed document updates the current well and onsite septic construction code that has been inplace since…

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