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Health department seeks state‑funded positions and grants for screenings, infection prevention and ADA work
Summary
The Ottawa County Health Department requested approval to add state‑funded staffing changes and to accept several grants — including a $900,000 infection‑prevention award and a workforce/infrastructure grant to support ADA clinic work — and asked the committee to forward urgent personnel items to finance.
Ottawa County Health Department Director Adeline Hambly briefed the committee on Jan. 14 about several state grants and position requests that would be added to the finance agenda for county approval. All of the requests described by Hambly are funded by state grants and not by county general fund, she said.
Hambly proposed several personnel changes tied to new or increased state allocations: increase a dental assistant position from 0.8 to 1.0 FTE to meet kindergarten oral‑health screening requirements (a state award of almost $100,000 was cited); create a full‑time hearing and vision technician funded by an increase to…
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