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Elkhart County Health Department outlines core services, faces Health First Indiana cuts and proposes limited staffing trims
Summary
Health department leadership reviewed services funded by county and state grants, explained a major cut in Health First Indiana funds and presented a package of possible modest staffing and operating adjustments to keep the department solvent for 2026.
Melanie Sizemore, a deputy or senior official with the Elkhart County Health Department, briefed commissioners on the department’s program mix, grant funding and budgetary pressures during the Sept. 11 special meeting.
Sizemore summarized regulated public-health functions — immunizations, communicable disease reporting, environmental-health inspections, WIC (Women, Infants and Children), pediatric dental, lead case management and emergency preparedness — and identified which programs are grant-funded or reportable to the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH).
Key points
- Health First Indiana (HFI) grant change: Sizemore said the county’s HFI allocation had fallen from roughly $5 million in earlier years to about $1.3 million after a funding formula change, describing that as a…
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