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Carson City Health Department adopts strategic plan, sets state public-health spending priorities
Summary
Carson City Health and Human Services approved a revised strategic plan and transmitted recommended state funding priorities so the city can receive and spend Nevada Public Health funding for FY 2026–27; staff also reported lab-waiver steps to provide rapid syphilis testing and outlined mosquito-abatement and other public-health actions.
Carson City Health and Human Services on June 5 approved a revised departmental strategic plan and adopted a distribution of state public-health funding priorities the department will submit to the state to secure Nevada Public Health funds for fiscal year 2026–27.
Director Jeannie Freeman told the Board the funding stream has changed compared with the prior Senate Bill 118 allocation; the new program requires local agencies to align spending with both a community health needs assessment and the foundational public-health-services framework. Freeman said Carson City must submit use plans to the State by the following week to be placed on the Board of Examiners agenda for August; funding cannot be spent until interlocal agreements are in place and unspent allocations revert…
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