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County pauses merger plan; directs staff to develop strategic health services action plan and notes CHC executive appointment
Summary
County staff recommended revising last year’s plan to merge public‑health and community health centers into one large department. Instead, the board directed staff to keep two departments under the assistant county administrator, task staff to produce a strategic health‑services action plan by Oct. 31, and noted the Community Health Center Board has directed appointment of a 'Lacey' as executive director pending county processing.
Benton County leadership returned to a proposal first discussed in May 2023 to revise the county’s health‑services structure.
Assistant County Administrator Rick Krieger proposed maintaining Public Health and the Community Health Centers as two distinct departments rather than creating a single large Department of Health and Human Services. Krieger said the choice reflects changes since last year (new permanent county administrator, creation of an assistant county…
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