Southwest Health and Human Services facing a financial shortfall

Monday, January 15, 2018

Southwest Health and Human Services is projecting a year-end deficit. Those words were shared with the Redwood County Board of Commissioners at a recent meeting by Beth Wilms, the new director of Southwest Health and Human Services (SWHHS).

Wilms, who was hired this past June as the director for the six-county entity that provides public health and human services programming for Redwood County, said there were concerns raised about the spending that was taking place within the organization and as a result SWHHS is not financially healthy.

“We’ve hit the pause button,” said Wilms. “We are reviewing how we do our work, as well as how we can contain expenses and enhance revenues.”

Wilms told the county board the budget for 2017 was more than $750,000 over projections for the year, and the shortfall was anticipated to be even higher than that by the end of 2017.

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