(The Center Square) − The New Orleans Health Department is anticipating significant cuts to core health and human services, risking slower emergency responses and fewer supports for families, the department’s said on Tuesday.
Jennifer Avegno, the department director, said Tuesday a $3 million cut is difficult to make.
“We spent the last several months awake in the middle of the night wondering how we were going to make this work,” she said. “We are going to try within limits to spread out the cut, so that one we don’t have to cut a single program. I don’t think I could do it if you asked me to choose between moms and babies or mental health or violence prevention or food.”…