Southeast Public Health will be closing its Kemptville office come next March.
In a media release, SEPH officials say they have been critically assessing the best way to serve the southeast region as a unified agency over the last several months.
Among activities like merging teams across the region and harmonizing programming, the agency says they have been looking at the best way forward to continue providing core, mandated public health services across the region, especially to rural areas.
They say they found that several leased office locations were being underutilized, and that cost savings from terminating these leases could be reinvested back into the agency to fund new and effective ways of offering programs and services.
Kemptville is among the offices that will close on March, 1, 2026.
The release adds that staff will work closely with their partners to continue delivering essential public health programs and services in the areas and there are no permanent employee positions being eliminated due to these changes.
