Tallapoosa County’s health ranking remained virtually unchanged in 2016 in numbers released recently by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Tallapoosa County ranked 41st among Alabama’s 67 counties in the 2016 County Health Rankings put together by the foundation. Tallapoosa was ranked 41st in 2015 as well.
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