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The Sagadahoc County Board of Commissioners accepted the retirement of Sagadahoc County Health Officer Hugh Tilson and nominated Marla Davis, the county’s first Board of Health chairperson, to replace him.

In announcing his intent to retire, Tilson said the board and public health in Sagadahoc County are doing well.

“I love the work I have been privileged to perform as your partner and I am deeply grateful for your trust and sustained support,” Tilson told board members. “However, I remind myself that I launched this shared journey ‘in retirement’ over a decade ago.”

He called the board a “durable, dynamic, well-estab- lished and well-respected community agent” working for public health and “wellsupported by our outstanding Emergency Management Agency.”

Tilson called Davis, a Sagadahoc County native, a “true public health institution, with solid professional training in nursing and public health, distinguished statewide service, and a highly successful career.”

Davis recently retired from her full-time community health leadership role at Mid Coast Hospital and began her tenure as the new county health officer at the June 28 meeting of the Sagadahoc County Board of Health.

“Her service to our community through advocacy for our local Healthy Maine Partnership, Access Health, whose board she has also chaired, and her extraordinary professional leadership as Mid Coast Hospital’s past director of community health improvement, make us confident she is the right volunteer for the job,” said Steven Trockman, Board of Health chairman and Mid Coast Hospital spokesman.

The Sagadahoc County Board of Health is an official advisory board to county commissioners.