Promoting Health Literacy

The health care industry estimates that $73 billion per year of unnecessary health care expense attributable to poor literacy, according to ProLiteracy Worldwide.

This is one of the many reasons PCLC is working to implement health literacy initiatives in Portage County. Thanks to a grant from the Edward J. Okray Foundation, the literacy council can start helping at risk adults make better health care decisions for themselves and their families.

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