“We anticipate that the total level of need that exists out in our community — for issues like homelessness, housing affordability, public safety, COVID recovery and other City services — will far exceed available resources,” said Maria Lee, spokesperson for the city of Tacoma.
Tacoma-based MultiCare Health System will require furloughs of 6,000 nonclinical workers to offset financial losses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. They amount to one day per pay period through 2020.TACOMA, Wash. — The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is making plans to drastically cut back its COVID-19 response after Pierce County and the City of Tacoma declined to provide $15 million to cover costs associated with the Omicron surge.
Zeiger then asked the health department how it would manage without the additional $15 million. Chen responded, “We will continue to monitor the situation and see what the future brings in terms of COVID response.” The health department has no authority to tax and relies on various funding streams, including money from local governments, state dollars and grants. The state Department of Health, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Pierce County also feed money into the health department to set up testing sites, contact tracing and operations to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chen is hopeful the emergency response to the coronavirus is ending, and the health department is therefore slowly changing its COVID-19 efforts. Pierce County’s reported COVID-19 cases have plummeted in recent weeks to a 14-day case rate of 223. 6 cases per 100,000, compared to the Dec. 12-25 rate of 841.6.
“I’m not thrilled with the position we are in,” Young told The News Tribune. “I had hoped our city partners would have at least some contributions from the city in ARPA dollars, but it’s pretty clear that is unlikely.”
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