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Local prenatal clinic tells commissioners county support needed as other funding falls short
Summary
The maternal and child prenatal clinic (community prenatal clinic) told the Brazos County Commissioners Court it serves primarily low-income Brazos County residents, will mark roughly 40 years of service, and requested continued county support after learning other expected funding will be lower than requested.
The community prenatal clinic asked the Brazos County Commissioners Court for continued support as it absorbs shrinking outside funding and anticipates increased need.
"We started in December of 1985," Lynn Claire Yeager, executive director of the prenatal clinic, told the court. Yeager said the clinic has served roughly 23,000 women over its nearly 40-year history and expects to see about 350 patients this year, of whom "85 percent are Brazos County residents."…
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