It's been up and running since 1893.
But Laura Berman of the Detroit News reports that the city of Detroit will shut down the Herman Kiefer Complex on Oct. 1 that houses the city's health and wellness department and the department of vital records, which includes birth certificates. The complex was designed by architect Albert Kahn is located at Claremont and the Lodge Expressway.
Berman writes that the vital records will be transferred to Wayne County and its eight employees will be laid off. Wayne County could end up hiring at least some of them.
Berman writes:
Health and wellness functions — including vaccinations, birth control, food handling licensing, HIV and STD testing, and other public safety operations — will continue to be operated by the Institute for Population Health, a nonprofit that’s been managing it for about a year, but in existing locations, and at 8904 Woodward Ave., beginning Oct. 1. --- A.L.
