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Mary Greeley reports service-area change, staffing strain and state public-health realignment plans
Summary
Mary Greeley Home Health & Hospice reported narrowing its service area to six counties, ongoing staffing shortages, expansion of population-based public‑health work funded by asset dollars, and potential state-level realignment of public‑health funding to district leads.
Eric Hadelman, director of Mary Greeley Home Health, Hospice and Story County Public Health, told the Story County Board of Supervisors on April 22 that the health system narrowed its home health and hospice service area to six counties and is preparing for state-level changes to public‑health funding.
Hadelman said the service-area change was prompted by travel and safety concerns for staff and by problems ensuring timely care. “We made the decision to go to a 6 county area instead of the 50 mile radius. So right now we service, Story, Polk, Marshall, Boone, Hamilton, Harton Counties,” Hadelman said. He told the board the shift has worked well and that other agencies in the region can cover care needs the hospital is no longer serving.
The report outlined core programs funded in part by “asset”…
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