By Noah Weiland, Photo: Elaine Cromie/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 9, 2022
In an underserved neighborhood of Michigan’s capital city, a health clinic is being built with nearly $900,000 in federal pandemic relief funds, a project that could transform the community’s access to care.
Wedged among new affordable apartments and a community center, the clinic is a symbol of the rapid effect the funds have had on many local public health programs.
In Michigan and some other states, stimulus aid for cities and counties has been put to use more quickly than billions in state-designated funds, some of which remain tied up in legislatures deadlocked over how to spend them. And while much of the local aid is going to other priorities, many cities and counties say the rescue funds have provided an opening to improve chronically underfunded public health systems as they recover from the pandemic, addressing entrenched health disparities that Covid-19 has made worse.
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