HomeMy WebLinkAboutCooling and Clean Air Center Updates for 2025Cooling and Clean
Air Centers 2025
Lara Gaasland-Tatro M.S., M.Ed
Columns represent the percentage of visits to the Jefferson Healthcare Hospital emergency department that were
coded as heat related as, captured through syndromic surveillance data.
HeatRisk Levels
JCPH/DEM Heat Response
JCPH/DEM Heat Response
Air Quality Guide –Air Quality Index (AQI)
AirNow shows
the Air Quality
Index, called the
AQI.
The AQI tells
how clean the air
is, and what
associated health
effects might be
a concern.
WA Air Quality Guide Continued
Cooling and Clean Air Centers
•Community Centers
•Brinnon, Quilcene, Tri-Area
•Libraries
•Jefferson County Library –Very good AC!
•Port Townsend Library
•The Recovery Cafe
•The Nest
•Port Townsend Rec Center (for youth/ folks with children)
•Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (good AC and good for
those with asthma)
•Also-Homes of friends and family with AC and/or Air filtration
JCPH Provides –as needed and applicable
•Portable Air Cleaners and spare filters
•Portable Air Conditioner Units
•Informational materials to hand out
•Technical assistance
•Recommendations/requests to extend hours during heat or
smoke events
•Bottled water and shelf stable snacks as requested during
smoke or heat events
•New this year-for locations that requested/were selected
Signboards in the form of sandwich boards
•Air Quality Flags
•Funding directly from JCPH Foundational Public Health for
extended hours
Mobile Air Quality Sensors
1 Handheld mobile device
2 Good for comparisons
3
Use AirNow for primary source of data4
Less accurate than stationary sensors
Air Quality Flags –New in Jefferson Co!
Keep an eye out for Air
Quality Flags, they will
show the current air quality
at that location!
Thank you!
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main clinic: 360-385-9400
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