Relocation Slated For Framingham Public Health

FRAMINGHAM, MA — The city’s public health offices are relocating next week, but won’t be going very far.

On Monday, the Framingham Public Health Division will move from 188 Concord St. to the Memorial Building, next door. Staff will work there for the next six months while the city makes structural upgrades to the current site.

The work is needed to bring 188 Concord St. into code compliance for the construction of a regional dispatch center there, according to a city notice.

Currently, the health division occupies the first floor of the four-story building. Plans call for creating an emergency communications facility on the other floors, serving both Framingham and Natick.

Framingham officials say public health services will continue without interruption during the relo. But access to the existing clinics and offices would have been “significantly impacted by construction activity, noise and general disruption.”

The division’s temporary locations in the Memorial Building will be Room 123, on the first floor, for the main office; and Room B3, on the lower level, for the offices of Chief Public Health Nurse Linda Phalen and the community health team.