COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Local health departments around Michigan are expected to get a $25 million funding increase from the State of Michigan after Governor Whitmer and the legislature passed the “Make it in Michigan” budget at the end of June.
Health Officer Rebecca Burns told the Community Health Agency’s Board of Health on Thursday she has been told that the increase in funds along with existing funding for Essential Local Public Health Services will be distributed based on the Services’ funding formula that was updated in 2017.
She says the increase in ELPHS funding is intended to bring the state closer in line with the 50/50 cost sharing requirement in the Public Health Code of 1978.
Burns is hoping for another increase in local appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024 as they remain significantly behind on funding that they received in the early 2000’s.
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