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Advisory board endorses medical memo but warns Yale teen clinic may lose state grants
Summary
Board supported a Sept. 18 medical memo that recommends partnering with community providers for primary care, while public commenters and some members warned forfeiting continuation grant funding will leave Yale and Port Huron teen clinics under-resourced.
The Saint Clair County Advisory Board of Health voted to support a September 18 memorandum from county medical director Dr. Remington Nevin recommending the department pivot from operating school-based primary care clinics toward facilitating private community health organizations and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to deliver such care.
Public commenters from Yale and Port Huron said the decision risks losing school-based teen health clinics that have served low-income students for decades and that…
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