Plans to rebuild or relocate the Hamilton County Health Department — located on East Third Street next to Erlanger Medical Center — are underway, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp announced Monday.
Speaking during a Regional Health Council meeting at the Health Department, Wamp said his office has been working with other stakeholders, including the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, for more than a year to determine a course of action.
Both Erlanger and UTC’s campuses neighbor the prime real estate where the Health Department currently sits, and the three entities already partner on various efforts, such as helping train students to enter the public health workforce.
“We have made a lot of progress toward what will be a multiparty agreement that I’m very hopeful we’ll be able to announce in the next few months, and it would involve all those parties,” Wamp said.