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Health department seeks direction as AED supply funding ends; proposes billing departments for pads and batteries
Summary
Facing a reduced budget and exhausted grant funding, the health department told commissioners it will stop buying AED pads and batteries for county departments after a transition period and asked how to charge departments to maintain the fleet.
The county health department told the Board of County Commissioners on July 22 it can no longer absorb recurring costs for automated external defibrillator (AED) pads and batteries because grant and special-project funding has ended and its budget was cut for the next fiscal year.
Cathy, the county health department representative, said the department currently provides AEDs and does maintenance for county buildings — including the highway department, sheriff's department, courthouses, annex and landfill —…
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