The Health and Hospitals Committee of Cook County convened on May 12, 2026, at 7:45 PM CT. The committee reviewed and accepted a semi-annual report on Cook County Health's (CCH) agency utilization, received a presentation on workforce reduction progress, and discussed recruitment strategies, including partnerships with Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The meeting included a roll-call vote on the item.
So now reconvene the meeting of the Health and Hospitals Committee. Madam Secretary Secretary, do we still have a quorum? Yes, sir. And let me revisit your uh role. Uh all members are present. We have added Commissioner Moore to your row. The following members are remote, Commissioner Britton, Commissioner McCasco, Commissioner Marita, and Commissioner Scott. You do have a quorum, sir. Thank you. We've already done our remote participation motion. Do we have any additions to the agenda? Chairman, I'm not aware of any additions to your uh agenda, and there are no speakers for this meeting either. Great. Vice Chair and I now moves approval of item 26-1486, the minutes from the meeting of the Health and Hospitals Committee held on April 14th, 2026. Seconded by Chairman Daly. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Okay. Chairman Daly now moves to receive and file. It's a receive and file, correct? Correct. To receive and file item 26-1101, a report titled CCH semi annual agency utilization report for the reporting period October 2025 to March 2026, seconded by Commissioner Aguilar. And we will now have a presentation. I think Wynn Biran is going to lead us off. Is he online? Or he's he's back. All right, come on up. Okay, great. Okay. Okay. When you're gonna start, and I understand Craig Williams is online as well. Okay. And I believe we have the presentation. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Good afternoon, Chairman Lowry. Good afternoon. Commissioners. I'm Wynn Bier and Chief Human Resource Officer at Cook County Health. I'm here to present our semi-annual update on the agency reduction plan, item 26-1101 on today's agenda. Uh joining me today is Craig Williams, our executive chief operating officer presenting virtually, and RJ Dabney, Associate Chief Human Resource Officer to my left. Last year I was here uh with early progress to report. Today the data shows we've continued to move in the right direction. Um before the workforce numbers, I want to uh I want to set the frame. Reducing agency dependency is a physical resilience strategy. Every position we convert to permanent staff, every agency request will be redirect overtime or internal redeployment. That shows up in the budget, and you'll see that on the spending side spending slide.