As the acting Wells County Health Department Health Officer, I am extending a personal invitation to Wells County residents to a public hearing Jan. 10, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. at the Wells County Annex, 223 W. Washington Street.

Please attend to listen, ask questions and learn more about the state of operational challenges the health department faces, the staffing shortages and especially the who and why the decision was made to rob the county residents of $250,000 in additional funding to expand needed health care services in our community when almost every other county took the money.

Please come. Your attendance is very important.

KAY F. JOHNSON-KEYS, MD

Bluffton