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Warrick County health officer moves to bring Healthy Families program in-house; inspector revokes several septic permits
Summary
The county health officer told commissioners the department will replace a Vanderburgh County contract with local Tri-CAP’s Healthy Families program at no cost to the health department and reported revoked septic permits and at least one E. coli contamination among older systems; commissioners approved the program switch.
Warrick County Health Officer Dr. Gauri told commissioners on Tuesday that the health department will end its contract with Vanderburgh County for early-childhood services and enter an MOU with local agency Tri-CAP to provide the Healthy Families program.
Dr. Gauri said Tri-CAP provides services from pre-birth through age 5 and can deliver the same services offered under the county’s current pre-to-3 arrangement. She told the board Tri-CAP’s model would come at no net cost to the health department; by contrast, she said Vanderburgh County staff estimated a full year of…
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