The Frederick County Health Department has announced that two programs will be eliminated and 10 employees laid off, effective Jan. 1.
Family planning and sexually transmitted infection treatment services were discontinued according to a press release issued today. The 10 positions are in those programs.
Five of the laid-off workers are nurses, four are interpreters and one is an office clerk. These include four state merit positions.
Another eight employees will be reassigned to work on H1N1 planning and response; these positions are funded by a temporary grant.
Five vacant positions have been eliminated: two environmental health sanitarians, two fiscal/billing employees and one secretary.
State funding cuts and budget reductions earlier this year made these changes necessary. State support for core public health services are now at the level of 1997 funding, the press release stated.
For more on this story, see Friday’s edition of The Frederick News-Post.
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