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Commissioners refer proposal to use opioid-settlement funds for first-responder health screenings to finance
Summary
Klamath County commissioners discussed using opioid-settlement dollars to pay for comprehensive health screenings for first responders, asked staff to pursue contracting and to send the proposal to the county finance committee for review.
Klamath County commissioners on March 11 discussed a proposal to use opioid-settlement funds to pay for comprehensive cardiometabolic and cardiology screenings for first responders and directed staff to refer the item to the county finance committee for further review.
The proposal, requested by a sheriff's office sergeant and outlined by county staff, would use opioid-settlement revenues to pay for physician-interpreted ECGs, a cardiometabolic stress test with expiratory gas analysis, advanced lipid and inflammatory biomarker panels, hematology and metabolic labs, carotid ultrasound, clinician…
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