Board of Health approves minutes, hears parent support program update
Board of Health · Meeting of January 22, 2026
Wellesley Board of Health discusses parent and newborn support program. Health Department Director Lenny Izzo and Public Health Nurse Amanda Stone detailed a new Parent and Newborn Support Services program in development, addressing questions from Vice Chair Linda Oliver Grape about outreach to residents who deliver at hospitals outside Wellesley. Stone described a tiered approach to launching the program.
The board also discussed disseminating its Community Health Assessment Report community-wide, with Chair Marcia Testa Simonson volunteering to write an executive summary to accompany the report.
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Source: the Board of Health meeting of January 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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