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Will County board urges state to restore $10 million for Local Health Protection Grant
Summary
The Will County board unanimously adopted a resolution supporting a $10 million statewide increase in the Local Health Protection Grant, a state-distributed fund county health officials say is necessary to maintain essential public-health functions. Will County’s share would be roughly $300,000, the health department estimated.
The Will County board voted unanimously to back a state bill that would boost the Local Health Protection Grant by $10 million, county health officials said.
Aishwarya, the health equity manager at the Will County Health Department, told the board the grant is a statewide fund distributed to counties to fund essential public-health work, including environmental health and communicable disease prevention. She said the fund is required for a local entity to operate as a health department and described recent pullbacks in certain grant lines, including reductions after ARPA funding…
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