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fter the Loudoun County School Board has worked to send its 10,000 employees home with more money—making raises a priority for much of its term— an $11 million shortfall in the school system’s health care fund may reverse much of that effort. The deficit will likely mean another hike in premiums for employees, and it may set up a fiscal tug-of-war between the School Board and Board of Supervisors months before budget season. The School Board learned at its meeting last Tuesday that, despite enacting greater premium increases than health care provider Cigna recommended, the health care fund still ran a deficit of $8 million in FY13 and $3 million so far for FY14. The full deficit for FY14 is not yet known because the health care schedule follows the calendar year instead of fiscal year. The shortfall is likely an anomaly and probably attributable to employees using their health care plans more, according to E. Leigh Burden, assistant superintendent of Financial Services. “With 10,000 employees, even a small shift in how people use their health care can result in huge fluctuations,” she said. She presented several suggestions to the board to not only make up the deficit but to make sure it doesn’t happen again, including increasing health care premiums by 15 percent over the next 15 months and requesting a one-time transfer of $6.3 million from the county’s FY14 fund balance. With that, Burden noted that in FY10 the county’s financial staff was directed to take $12.5 million from the school system’s health care fund to address a county revenue shortfall that was forecasted but did not materialize. “So we would hope the county might assist us with this.” That was the line that caught School Board members’ attention, and redirected the conversation

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arly last week, the Loudoun County government issued a press release announcing that local emergency crews and the medical community were prepared, should the Ebola virus make its way into the county. Two days later, that level of preparedness was put to the test. The nation-wide fear of infection by the virus hit Loudoun last Thursday when the county announced that a Loudoun County Adult Detention Center inmate had been isolated at Inova Loudoun Hospital to be monitored for Ebola. She arrived at Dulles Airport Oct. 13 after having traveled to the West African region hit hardest by the virus, and had come down with a low-grade fever. The inmate was monitored for 24 hours to make sure the fever did not go into the suspicious range. Fortunately, her symptoms subsided and the Loudoun County Health Department, together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ruled out Ebola and later discharged her. But the incident brought home Inova Loudoun Hospital the possibility that Loudoun, even From left, Medical Director of Emergency Medicine Dr. Edward Puccio and more so than most communities registered nurse Kim Klein are helped into protective gear by Infection across the country, as the home of Preventionist Nailah Davis last Thursday just before a patient was delivered Dulles Airport—one of just five U.S. to Inova Loudoun Hospital for Ebola screening. airports designated by the federal

government to receive all travelers coming from West African countries wrestling with the epidemic—could be impacted by Ebola. Customs and Border Patrol agents identified the woman at the airport Monday as a person wanted for a crime in Maryland so the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office transported her to the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center, on Sycolin Road in Leesburg, to be housed until she could be extradited to Maryland. The woman’s health was screened by the CBP agents at the airport, but she did not show symptoms at the time. However, “because she came from a high-risk area for Ebola she was isolated and monitored at the ADC,” Sheriff Mike Chapman told the media during a press conference last Thursday. When the woman came down with a fever that morning she was transported from the detention center to the hospital using an “abundance of caution,” according to Fire-Rescue Chief W. Keith Brower. The transport team included a medic unit, Hazmat support unit, the battalion chief, law enforcement and health department personnel. “This is the very first case, so we wanted to make sure we were taking all the proper precautions,” Brower said. “There were a lot of people involved in this, and it was a very good showing of all of us working together to try to make the best of a

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