Full Text of HR0883 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION | 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Mark A. Pfister on the | 4 | | occasion of his retirement as executive director of the Lake | 5 | | County Health Department and Community Health Center | 6 | | (LCHD/CHC); and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Mark Pfister received his Bachelor of Arts in | 8 | | Biology, Environmental Science, and Psychology from Augustana | 9 | | College in May 1986 and his Master of Science in Energy and | 10 | | Sustainability, specializing in Limnology and Environmental | 11 | | Science, from Indiana University School of Public and | 12 | | Environmental Affairs in August 1991; he is currently a | 13 | | doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago | 14 | | School of Public Health; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Mark Pfister has served as a public health | 16 | | professional and ecologist for LCHD/CHC since 1991, initially | 17 | | working as an aquatic biologist and the coordinator of the | 18 | | Lakes Management Program under the LCHD/CHC's Environmental | 19 | | Health Services (EHS) until 2005; he proceeded to serve as | 20 | | associate director of EHS from 2005 to 2009 and then as its | 21 | | interim director from 2009 to 2010; he became director of | 22 | | Prevention and Population Health Services in 2010, holding | 23 | | that position until he was named interim executive director of |
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| 1 | | LCHD/CHC in 2016; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, Mark Pfister has served as executive director of | 3 | | LCHD/CHC since January 2017; during his tenure, he led over 60 | 4 | | separately funded public health, behavioral health, and | 5 | | medical programs performed by approximately 1,000 employees at | 6 | | over 20 locations in Lake County while maintaining fiscal | 7 | | responsibility over several multimillion-dollar budgets; he | 8 | | reorganized and centralized quality improvement, | 9 | | organizational development, finance, grant management, and | 10 | | public health informatics, and he restructured the agency | 11 | | quality management system; he revamped the LCHD/CHC strategic | 12 | | planning process and required alignment to the Lake County | 13 | | community health improvement plan and proposed changes to the | 14 | | agency vision and mission to address the social determinants | 15 | | of health and promote a health equity lens; he also worked | 16 | | tirelessly during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the safety | 17 | | and care of all residents of Lake County; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Mark Pfister belongs to several organizations, | 19 | | including as the policy and legislative chair and a past | 20 | | executive council member of the Illinois Public Health | 21 | | Association and as a board member of the Illinois Primary | 22 | | Healthcare Association and the Northern Illinois Public Health | 23 | | Consortium; he is also a member of the American Public Health | 24 | | Association; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Mark Pfister will retire from LCHD/CHC after more | 2 | | than 30 years of service on September 1, 2024; therefore, be it | 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 4 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 5 | | we congratulate Mark Pfister on his retirement as executive | 6 | | director of the Lake County Health Department and Community | 7 | | Health Center, and we thank him for his commitment and | 8 | | dedication to the community and the State of Illinois; and be | 9 | | it further | 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to Mark Pfister as an expression of our esteem and | 12 | | respect. |
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