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Health department seeks grant for $235,000 mobile health unit; commissioners express reservations
Summary
Daviess County Health Department asked to apply for an endowment grant to help buy a mobile health unit (estimated $235,000), requesting $170,000 from the grant and $65,000 from Health First Indiana funds. Commissioners voiced concern about long-term maintenance and budgetary risk and declined to move forward immediately.
County health department staff asked commissioners for permission to apply for a competitive endowment grant to purchase a mobile health unit — an office-on-wheels equipped for vaccinations, testing and outreach — and described the department’s position on matching funds.
Deputy/representative Kelly (health department staff, first name only) said the department has earmarked capital funds in its Health First Indiana (HFI) fund and was seeking $170,000 from an external endowment…
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