WHEELING — Last year, Wheeling Health Right received more than $36,000 from the Ohio County Commission to help fund a mobile unit to take health care into communities.

The free health care clinic now receives funding for that mobile unit, and now Health Right is asking the commission to re-allocated that money for its dental programs.

In Dec. 2024, commissioners approved a community grant for $36,552 for Wheeling Health Right to expand the days of service each week provided by its mobile health unit in the community.

The money was received by Wheeling Health Right under former executive director Kathie Brown.

But new director Anne Ricci explained that, since then, “the economic landscape” has changed at Health Right, and the organization would like to use the grant money toward expandi

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