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Federal grant for Aging-in-Place terminated; city and public-health foundation step in to sustain program
Summary
Chief Jason Stroud said the CDC cut a grant supporting the Aging-in-Place fall-prevention program; Stroud said the Public Health Foundation will fund the program through 2026 and the EMS compassionate-billing proposal includes funding lines for mobile integrated health/community paramedicine that could sustain the service longer term.
During the budget presentations on May 6, councilmembers raised the immediate loss of a federal grant supporting the Department of Public Health’s Aging-in-Place falls-assist program. Chief Jason Stroud said the CDC had terminated the federal grant effective immediately, and he reported an MOU to transfer funding responsibility to the Virginia Beach…
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