{"id":341790,"date":"2025-12-10T21:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341790\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:32:22","slug":"escambia-county-alabama-voters-approve-health-care-tax-northescambia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341790\/","title":{"rendered":"Escambia County, Alabama, Voters Approve Health Care Tax : NorthEscambia.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/atmorecommunity1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-399431\" title=\"atmorecommunity1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atmorecommunity1-540x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Escambia County, Alabama, voters on Tuesday approved a property tax earmarked for hospital funding and health care.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s referendum passed with 1,647 (54%) in favor and 1,396 (46%) against.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-mill tax is expected to generate and estimated $1.8 million for health care facilities, according to the Escambia County Healthcare Authority. The authority\u2019s services include D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital in Brewton, Atmore Community Hospital, D.W. McMillan EMS, Atmore Community Home Care, Atmore Med Plus, ACH Family Physicians, ACH Primary Care, Atmore Therapy Services, D.W. McMillan Home Medical Equipment, D.W. McMillan Home Health and the Flomaton Medical Center<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary unofficial results by precinct, were as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vote11.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-606149\" title=\"vote11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vote11-540x873.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"873\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Written by William Reynolds \u00b7 Filed Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/category\/front-top\" title=\"View all posts in FRONT TOP\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONT TOP<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Escambia County, Alabama, voters on Tuesday approved a property tax earmarked for hospital funding and health care. Tuesday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-341790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}