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Health department warns federal cuts, rising vaccine costs could force staffing or service reductions
Summary
Johnson County Health and Environment officials told the commission that substantial federal funding and program changes, rising vaccine prices and inflation could reduce local public-health capacity. Staff sought ongoing funding for higher vaccine costs, household hazardous waste hauling and laboratory opioid testing funded by opioid settlement.
Johnson County's Department of Health and Environment told the Board of County Commissioners that federal grant uncertainty and rising commodity costs are pressuring public-health services and could force staff or program reductions without additional local support.
Director Charlie Hunt highlighted program updates and new tools: a HIPAA-compliant handheld device to support multilingual services, a new laboratory information management system in the county medical examiner's office, updates to the environmental and aquatic…
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