The provincial government is giving the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit up to $1.23 million for a variety of programs.
The health unit is getting up to $1,233,096 in additional base funding and up to $172,500 in one-time funding for the 2015-16 funding year to support the provision of mandatory and related public health programs and services in this community.
These additional funds will be added to the health unit’s base, the funds can be used to grow much-needed capacity to the Health Unit.
“We share our gratitude with the province for the additional funding, hoping that the investment in public health continues locally and across our province so that the higher downstream costs of the acute care system can be avoided, at least in part, by the lower upstream investment in public health, with its emphasis on prevention,” says chair Gary McNamara.
The money will go towards programs involving nutrition, physical activity, breast-feeding, immunization and radon awareness.
