Cuts in Funding to Alabama Health Agency Impact Renovations, Equity Program

A health officer for the Mobile County Health Department in Alabama says that funding cuts will impact the agency’s infrastructure upgrades and renovations, reports Fox 10 News:

Health Officer Dr. Kevin Michaels said the department has received roughly $23 million over the last few years, and it was expecting that money to be phased out over the next year and a half. Now that it’s come to a sudden stop, he says one of the biggest impacts will be to some ongoing infrastructure upgrades and renovations.

“Majority of the work was completed, but there’s a tail end that won’t be covered so we’ll have to come up with the money to finish out the contracting,” said Dr. Michaels.

Dr. Michaels says the department was able to move some employees around while others were let go once the funding stopped. One of the bigger programs that took a hit was the health equity program, which established relationships with people who didn’t get important information that they needed.