By Blake Haas
DEWITT COUNTY – After 31-years in public service, the DeWitt-Piatt County Health Administrator is retiring at the end of May.
Dr. David Remmert has served the DeWitt-Piatt County Health Department for the last 17-years and helped the counties through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Dave left an incredible mark on this agency and our communities overall,” Dr. Aaron Blakely, Chair of the Dewitt-Piatt Board of Health, said. “His experiences hare ranged from bringing in millions of dollars of funding to deliver needed services to our communities, including everything ranging from car seat programs for underserved new parents to creating a new dental clnic serving thousands of Medicaid-eligible residents with no where to go for service.
His administrative ability helped him re-construct our accounting system to allow for better management information systems and recreating a more competitive salary schedule.”
Under the helm of Dr. Remmert, the DeWitt County Health Department constructed a new office building in Clinton, where he was able to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars to offset some of the cost of the building.
A replacement is yet to be determined.
Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected]
