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Tri County Health warns of federal funding cuts, flags local overdose and teen-pregnancy rates
Summary
Tri County Health Department presented its 2024 annual report to the Uintah County Commission, outlining revenue and spending, a likely reduction in COVID contract funding that could force staffing cuts, and local health priorities including high overdose and teen-pregnancy rates.
Kirk Bench, director of the Tri County Health Department, told the Uintah County Commission on March 25 that the department could face immediate cuts after learning the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to pull back COVID contracts.
Bench said the department learned “about an hour ago” that CDC would end existing COVID contracts, and he estimated the change could force roughly $1 million in additional cuts beyond funds the department already planned to return. “We could be looking at needing to shrink our workforce this year,” he said.
The department, which serves Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties through an…
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