Vickie VanDeventer Quotations

If we have an event, it will take all of us.

To identify any type of outbreak, we need a way to know. What would be nice is for us not to just have to think we're seeing more people with diarrhea, but to have an automated way to tell us, in case we miss it.

Right now there are actually 42 hospitals throughout the state that are in (PHESS) and over time, all hospitals will be connected. But we have to start somewhere, work out the bugs and get the system in place.

It's really an exciting advancement in identification and communication. No one is here 24-7 to figure these things out, so this has been a great help.