Connecticut State Department of Public Health

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The Laboratory/Mobile and Surge Hospital Liaison is the Commissioner's liaison for agency bond projects.  Current projects assigned to the liaison include:  the design and construction of a new state-of-the-art Public Health Laboratory; the purchase and operational development of a Mobile and Surge Hospital (MaSH); and an initiative to improve isolation care capacity in acute care hospitals statewide.