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Wayne County updates Well Wayne initiatives; commissioners press for transparency on medical-debt relief
Summary
Wayne County Health & Human Services presented progress on Well Wayne programs — vision screenings, Narcan access, air-quality monitoring, food access and medical-debt relief — and asked the commission to renew the county's contract with Undo Medical Debt for one year. Commissioners pressed staff for ZIP-code reporting, funding clarity and data on who benefits.
Kanielle Johnson, director of Health Human Investment Services, told the Health and Human Services Committee the department submitted a status report on the Well Wayne initiatives pursuant to the enrolled ordinance cited by staff. The update covered several programs designed to address social determinants of health: air-quality monitoring, medical-debt relief, Narcan vending access, Vision to Learn school vision screenings, the Eastern Market Fresh Truck program and the Empowerment Plan distribution effort.
Aja Harris Martin, the department's chief programs officer, said program partners have distributed empowerment-plan kits and that the Vision to Learn partnership is ahead of schedule: "this school year alone, we've almost distributed nearly 5,000" pairs of glasses and about 10,000 across the program to date. Martin…
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