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Garry Hammond of the Family Guidance Center for Behavioral Health in St. Joseph said he won't sign the state contract because he might have to repay thousands of dollars.His decision eliminates about a third of his center's funding, cutting off services for about 1,500 women.

The loss of state funding will especially hurt the rural, low-income women his office serves.These women have come into his center with undiagnosed diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and heart disease.

"My concern is what is going to happen to the women," he said.
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"We're giving up federal money," Hammond agreed.

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Family Guidance Board Chair, Teresa Humphreys, PhD officially cut the ribbon along with Family Guidance President/CEO, Garry Hammond, Vice-Presidents Myrna Tricky and Carroll Krupp and many other board members.

Bob Dempster, Family Guidance Center Board President, welcomed attendees and Garry Hammond, Family Guidance Center President/CEO, recognized elected officials and Chamber Diplomats.
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Participating in the groundbreaking ceremonies were Senator Charlie Shields, Mayor Ken Shearin, Representative Ed Wildberger, Bob Dempster, Ron Dittemore, Jennifer Osborn, Dixie Neal and Garry Hammond.

Garry Hammond, president of the Family Guidance Center for Behavioral Health Care in St. Joseph, said a facility in Cameron had to be closed because of the cuts.Hours at a clinic in Maryville have also been scaled back.

The center typically received between $170,000 and $200,000 in family planning money from the state although federal money is still available.

"It will reduce access for poverty-level women who need contraceptive care plus basic health screening," Hammond said.

Family planning programs have often been tied to the battle between anti-abortion lawmakers and Planned Parenthood, the state's largest abortion provider.
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Hammond, whose center serves about 5,000 people a year, said that battle has affected clinics that do not provide abortions.

"Unfortunately, women who need family planning services are caught in the crossfire between some legislators and Planned Parenthood over the abortion issue," Hammond said.

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I have a lot of concern about that bill, said Garry Hammond, president and CEO of the Family Guidance Center for Behavioral Healthcare.They re better off going on welfare rather than working and getting no health care for their children.
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But Mr. Hammond said he is concerned, too, about the annual appropriations proposal.If passed, he said, it would give the state power to cut not only the mentally ill from the Medicaid rolls, but whomever it pleases each year.

The danger if this law passes will be an annual battle rather than being part of the Medicare plan, Mr. Hammond said.