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Central Shenandoah Health District director reports staffing losses, stable core services and mobile clinic launch
Summary
Dr. Lisonbee Barracco told Staunton City Council that the Central Shenandoah Health District closed out a stable 2024 but lost COVID-era grant funding in 2025 that eliminated 12 contract staff; core clinic and environmental health services remain operational and a new mobile clinic is active.
Dr. Lisonbee Barracco, director of the Central Shenandoah Health District, presented the district's 2024 annual report to Staunton City Council on April 24, outlining sustained clinical and environmental health services in 2024 and recent staffing and funding changes in 2025.
The report, Barracco said, covers a “post-pandemic” 2024 in which the district received more than $3 million in mostly federal grants. In March 2025 the district experienced an “abrupt discontinuation” of some COVID-related grants that resulted in the loss of 12 contract staff — about half focused on population health/community health worker work and the other half on epidemiology for respiratory viruses and related outreach in long-term care settings. Barracco said the district has not yet seen essential functions disrupted…
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