QUESTION: Has one of the top-paid officials at Alamance County’s health department been fired from her position due to some legal violation?
ANSWER: The county’s health department has, indeed, dismissed Elizabeth Sciora, who had been an “advanced practice provider” with the department before her termination on March 19.
According to the county’s personnel records, Sciora had been in the county’s employ since October 1, 1997 and, before her departure, served as an Advanced Practice Provider II with an annual salary of $119,597.40.
On February 14, of this year, the county placed Sciora on paid administrative leave for reasons that she later discussed with the health department’s top brass in a “pre-disciplinary conference” on March 14. Four days later, the county’s health director Tony Lo Giudice presented Sciora with a letter to sum up his takeaway from this conference.
“After considering the information you verbally provided, your written statement, and the other documents you provided,” Lo Giudice states in this missive, “and after again, reviewing the evidence, you are hereby dismissed from employment effective Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 1700 hours.”
Lo Giudice proceeds to offer two reasons for Sciora’s dismissal – the first being “unacceptable personal conduct” that “constitutes [a] violation of state or federal law.” The health director also noted Sciora’s alleged “failure to comply” with a particular state statue that required her “to report crimes against [a] juvenile.”
Lo Giudice concludes his letter by reminding Sciora that she had 15 days to appeal her termination – an option that she apparently chose to forgo before she turned in her badge on March 19.
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