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Second Annual Health Officers Award of Excellence
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Jefferson County Department of Health is proud to announce
the recipients of the second annual Health Officer’s Award of
Excellence. This award goes to the restaurants within Jefferson
County that have promoted community health through food safety,
well trained staff, healthy menu choices, and a smoke free
environment.
The 2006 Health Officer’s Award of Excellence recipients are
(alphabetically) Baker's Famous Pizza, Bluff Park Elementary
School Cafeteria, Grump's Great Grill, Habaneros Mexican Grill
Hoover, Porky's Pride Bar-B-Q Smokehouse,Subway Civic Center,
Subway columbiana Road, The Pita Cafe, and Tortugas Homemade
Pizza Highway 150. Each of the restaurants has an average score
of 98 or higher on its last three restaurant inspections,
serves a variety of foods including healthy menu items, and
maintains a smoke free dining and working environment. Special
recognition is given this year to the Bluff Park Elementary
School Cafeteria (Hoover City Schools) for a perfect score of
100 on their last three inspections. In addition, Tortugas
Homemade Pizza is the only restaurant to receive this honor two
years in a row. All of these establishments should be very
proud of their accomplishments.
Dr. Michael Fleenor, Health Officer, says "We wanted to
recognize the restaurants that do an excellent job of providing
a healthy environment for their customers and their staff. At
the health department we concluded a "healthy" restaurant had
four key components: safe food preparation, well trained staff,
foods that not only taste good, but that are good for you, and a
smoke free policy."
Of course we are not implying that everything on the menu is
good for your health. Individuals must ultimately make good
choices if they want to be healthy. An important choice to make
is selecting a dining establishment that is smoke free. There
is evidence to show that as little as a thirty minute exposure
to second hand smoke can have serious consequences such as heart
attack or stroke. Exposure is especially dangerous for small
children and pregnant women. If your favorite restaurant still
allows smoking, ask them to consider going smoke free or try one
of these award winning eating establishments instead.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2006 Health
Officer’s Award of Excellence!
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