Melissa Lyon, who will be director of the Delaware County Health Department, speaks at a Tuesday news conference.Delaware County is expected to get its own health department “very soon,” county leaders said Tuesday, after decades without one, years of planning, and a global pandemic in which the Chester County Health Department had to fill the role.
, Delaware County is the most populous county in Pennsylvania without a health department. The other local counties The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Delaware County team said they are in regular communication “to ensure all necessary criteria are met” for the county health department, said Pennsylvania Department of Health spokesperson Mark O’Neill.
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