Mercy Health Lima has been granted $300,000 as part of the Ohio Department of Health's "Health Improvement Zones" project. It's an initiative to improve health disparities faced by many people. Mercy Health will be working to get more information from residents by focusing on specific neighborhoods.

Regional Director Jenn Butler explains, “It’s great that there’s been a virtual option for those social supports but having something in your community where individuals know the supports and resources that are right here in your hometown. And that relationship building there’s so much value in that. So, they are really wanting that connection with others.”

Multiple agencies across Allen County are working together to help people become self-sufficient.