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The state Department of Health and Human Resources has identified 19 local health departments in West Virginia that have less than six months' operating cash on hand.
Regionally, the Clay County Department of Health is cash strapped.
State health officials declined to issue a list of departments with problems, and the list was obtained by a FOIA request by Charleston Gazette.
Six departments had less than three months' worth of operating cash on hand, five had less than six months' operating cash on hand, and eight were operating at a deficit between 2011 and 2013.
The health departments -- identified through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Charleston Gazette -- include the Barbour County Health Department, the Brooke County Health Department, the Cabell-Huntington Health Department, the Clay County Health Department, the Doddridge County Health Department, the Fayette County Health Department, the Grafton-Taylor Health Department, the Jackson County Health Department, the Lincoln County Health Department, the Logan County Health Department, the McDowell County Health Department, the Mineral County Health Department, the Morgan County Health Department, the Putnam County Health Department, the Randolph-Elkins Health Department, the Summers County Health Department, the Wayne County Health Department and the Wyoming County Health Department.
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