Allegheny County’s National Health Corps, an AmeriCorps-affiliated initiative that addresses community health, announced that it will close after more than three decades. National Health Corps members served in a variety of health related roles, including for a Bike PGH event in 2023 to 2024. (Courtesy of Keeka Grant-Tomlinson)
Federal funding cuts have ended Allegheny County’s National Health Corps, an AmeriCorps-affiliated program that addressed community health needs by providing health education, care coordination and access to services.
On Thursday, the Allegheny County Health Department announced the final cohort from the program’s Pittsburgh site had graduated, bringing the initiative’s more than three-decade run to a close…