Board of Health/Community Health

City Hall
825 W. Irving Blvd.
Irving, TX 75060

BoH-Members
Left to right: James Stegall, Vice-chairman Dr. Michael Chiu, Mark Hernandez, Dr. Clement Anyiwo, Chairman John Drake, 
Mary Kay Hartley, Dr. Carole Baas and Steve Schellenberg

Mission

To recommend public health policies to the Irving City Council that make Irving a healthy place to live, learn and work.

Vision

To establish a healthy environment in which Irving residents live, work and learn. This goal will be achieved by diligently implementing the following ten essential public health services:

  • Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
  • Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
  • Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
  • Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
  • Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
  • Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
  • Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
  • Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
  • Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
  • Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
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A Safety Message from the Irving Fire Department:

C-P-R

The Irving Fire Department wants everyone to be aware of the importance of knowing how to perform CPR. According to the American Heart Association, 80 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home. Do you know what to do if a family member or friend suddenly goes into cardiac arrest and collapses?

“We all think we will never have a need to use CPR,” states Fire Chief Mario Molina, “but the fact of the matter is, cardiac arrest can affect anyone at anytime, including family members and friends. That is why we want everyone to learn how to use either Hands-Only CPR or conventional CPR.”

Hands-Only CPR, performed by a bystander has been shown to be as effective as “conventional” CPR in emergencies that occur at home, work or in public. There are only two steps to remember when performing Hands-Only CPR:

  1. Call 911
  2. Push hard and fast in the center of the chest.
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WHY LEARN CPR?
Cardiac arrests are more common than you think.

  • Nearly 300,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually, and 80 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home.
  • Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.
  • Immediate CPR can double, or even triple, a victim’s chance of survival.
  • For every minute that CPR is not being done, your loved one has an additional 10% chance of not surviving

For more information about the importance of knowing how to perform CPR and to view an instructional video on how simple it is to do, go to: www.handsonlycpr.org or www.heart.org/cpr

Learn CPR and help make a difference!