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Cleveland health commissioner outlines equity work and warns of Medicaid/SNAP paperwork risks
Summary
Commissioner Lita Wills updated council on the Health Department's Division of Health Equity and Social Justice, described an equity assessment tool, flagged federal grant compliance changes affecting Moms First/HIV programs and warned SNAP/Medicaid re-enrollment rules risk disrupting care for vulnerable populations.
Commissioner Lita Wills of the Cleveland Department of Public Health briefed the committee on the Division of Health Equity and Social Justice's priorities, tools and risks facing residents as federal and state benefit rules change.
Wills described the division's remit, created after a City Council resolution that declared racism a public health crisis, and said the office coordinates programs across city departments to address social determinants of health. She listed core programs that fall under the division's purview: HIV services, Minority Health, Moms First (a federally funded Healthy Start home‑visiting program) and the Office of Mental Health and Addiction Recovery.
The commissioner explained a new health and equity assessment (a six-step, fillable tool adapted with…
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