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Larimer County honored Public Health 'Hero'

By Tre' - Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:22 am EDT

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I had to repost the story below. In my mind Health Care takes many forms. I don't want us to be machines working towards only Obama's idea of Health Care. When this is all done we (the people) will still need to help each other live healthier and happier. This is one way someone in Larimer county has done that...

The original article posted below can be found at (http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090609/UPDATES01/90609017/Harbison+honored+as+public-health+hero)

The Larimer County Board of Health has named Lupe Harbison, health care program coordinator for the Women's Resource Center in Fort Collins, as the recipient of this year's Joseph Jabaily Public Health Hero Award.

Harbison has worked nine years at the resource center. Her work includes helping low-income resi-dents to receive breast- and reproductive-health services, such as mammograms.

She also provides outreach to the Latino community for various health programs, according to the board of health.

The annual "hero" award is given in memory of Dr. Joseph Jabaily, a Loveland neurologist and public-health advocate who died in a charity bicycle race in 2004.

The award will be presented Thursday at the health board's meeting at 7 pm, at the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment, 1525 Blue Spruce Drive, in Fort Collins.

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