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Burke County accepts DSS 2024 annual report and county health department quarterly report
Summary
Directors from Burke County Social Services and Public Health presented annual and quarterly performance data including Medicaid caseloads, foster-care and child-protection statistics, clinical encounters and environmental health permits; the board voted to accept the reports during the pre-agenda meeting.
Portia Fisher Weilman, director of Burke County Department of Social Services, presented the agency's 2024 annual report at the April 7 pre-agenda meeting and outlined key program statistics that commissioners accepted as presented.
Highlights from the DSS presentation included: the county had about 28,538 Medicaid participants in 2024 (about 35% of the county) and roughly $228 million in claims for those participants; eligibility work…
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