The two maternal and child health nurses employed by Bangor’s public health department will remain on staff despite the state’s plan to take over public health nursing in the region.

The City Council officially accepted a grant Wednesday from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for public health infrastructure over the next two years, which will be used in part to keep the two nurses whose positions otherwise would have lost funding.

The new funding comes after the state said in August that it planned to take over those services. Bangor leaders expressed skepticism at the time about whether the state’s nurses would be able to provide the same level of care as the city’s local program, which has been serving families in the area for decades.

The grant comes as a concessi

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