(La Porte County, IN) - The La Porte County Health Department is finally back in its original offices in the County Complex Building.

 

Health workers moved back into their fourth floor headquarters on Monday, after about a year-and-a-half in other county offices while the complex was renovated. In December of 2022, county staff had to scramble to relocate due to a bad water leak.

 

Tricia Wozniak, Health Department Environmental Supervisor, says the results were worth the wait. “The office is absolutely beautiful,” she told HTNN. “Everybody is very pleased with it. Our office has never looked this nice. We are still unpacking, so it’s going to be a process. But we are fully operational at this point.”

 

Wozniak says she and her staff notice a world of difference, even if it’s not that obvious to the public. “New counters, new desks. All the walls are new, carpet’s new, all the lighting is new,” she said. “But the configuration of it is basically the same.”

 

Wozniak says a meeting room was expanded to make extra space. It seems even more spacious now, after having to share office space in other parts of the county for over a year.