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Hardin County health officials report service increases, WIC expansion to Fort Knox
Summary
Lincoln Trail District Health Department reported higher clinic visits, new adult vaccine services and expanded WIC access including an on-post agreement with Fort Knox; officials also flagged temporary drops in some reported education visits caused by staffing and phone-based service delivery.
Sarah Jo Best, public health director for the Lincoln Trail District Health Department, told the Hardin County Fiscal Court on June 10 that many public-health service lines have grown compared with the prior year.
Best said fiscal-year-25 numbers through April show total clinic visits already exceeding the full prior fiscal year and that environmental inspections and hands visits were each “just right at 3,000.” She also highlighted program details and short-term reporting effects tied to staffing: “For a period of time we were short on nursing staff and so we were doing some of the WIC benefits issued…
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