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Offers public health programs and services and works closely with the county Board of Health. Also provides information about communicable diseases.

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Health Fairs
Communicable Disease Control
Tobacco Use Education/Prevention
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
General Health Education Programs
General Immunization

Protects the citizens of Marion County from contracting and transmitting infectious disease. Receives reports of communicable diseases from physicians, laboratories, health care practitioners, schools, and daycare personnel as the disease occurs.

Provides disease surveillance and investigations to determine the source and spread of infectious diseases. This program is to determine the extent of infection and the risk of disease so that measures can be quickly and effectively applied.

Provides skilled nursing visits, homemaker visits, blood pressure, flu, and immunizations clinics, and physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Also offers information on communicable diseases and public health responses.

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Blood Pressure Screening
Home Nursing
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Home Health Aide Services
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Homemaker Assistance
General Immunization
Public Health Nursing
Communicable Disease Control

Offers services including community health programs, disease information, control, and prevention and emergency preparedness programs through Alert Iowa.

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COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Disaster Preparedness Information
Personal Care
Communicable Disease Control
Public Health Nursing
General Immunization
Disease Prevention Programs
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Physicals for care providers.

Blood draw services.

West Nile education.

Radon education.

Communicable disease surveillance.

Public health emergency preparedness.

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General Immunization
Communicable Disease Control
General Health Education Programs
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Public Health Nursing
Plans and prepares for a possible bioterrorism attack.

Offers public health services to Madison County residents. Services include immunizations and communicable disease information and control.

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General Immunization
Public Health Nursing
Communicable Disease Control
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Provides communicable disease follow-up, education, and prevention to control the spread of infection and illness.

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General Immunization
Communicable Disease Control
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics

O'Brien County Public Health including immunizations, communicable disease information and general public health.

Provides:

-- Immunizations

-- Immunization Audits

-- Infectious Disease Management

-- Caring for Kindergarten

-- Emergency Planning and Preparedness

-- I-Smile-- Preschool I-Smile

-- Maternal Child Health

-- Lead and tobacco coalition

-- Foot care and blood pressure screening

-- Wellness fair

-- Jail nursing

-- Medication Administration

-- Wellness and Fall Assessment programs

-- Policies and procedures-- Resource advocate

-- 5210 fighting childhood obesity

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Public Health Nursing
Blood Pressure Screening
General Immunization
Communicable Disease Control
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics

Communicable disease surveillance, investigation and containment of contagious illnesses.

Emergency preparedness, disaster relief and emergency planning.

Wellness services assists area businesses and/or individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles through education and/or wellness activities.

Weight loss programs and health coaching services to improve healthy lifestyles.

Education on the dangers of radon gas and radon testing kits.

Educates public about dangers of West Nile virus.

Minority health offers education and activities to reach minority individuals in the service area on various health-related topics.

CPR and first aid training throughout service area.

Education and colon cancer screening kits to the community to encourage prevention and early detection of colon cancer.

Tai Chi and Bingo-cize fall prevention classes held in communities to help decrease falls in the community.

School nursing.

Substance abuse prevention through the Healthy Communities Initiative. Coalition works together to provide education and activities to reduce drug and alcohol use among youth.

Dental screenings and education offered to preschool and grade school children. Sealants and fluoride treatments also available.

Childhood and adult vaccines for all people are provided at each of Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department's three locations in Norfolk, Tekamah and Wisner. Includes vaccines for those who are privately insured, Medicare, Medicaid and those who are uninsured.

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Radon Testing
CPR Instruction
Communicable Disease Control
Fall Prevention Programs
Dental Screening
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Chronic Disease Self Management Programs
Nutrition Education
General First Aid Instruction
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Weight Management
Disease/Disability Information
Student Health Programs
Public Health Nursing
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Workplace Wellness Programs
General Immunization
Prepares for and responds to health emergencies and disasters. Also focuses on wellness and prevention including immunization clinics, wellness screenings, weekly blood pressure screenings, and participation in Childhood Lead Poisoning Program.

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Communicable Disease Control
Blood Pressure Screening
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
General Immunization
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Lead Poisoning Screening
Provides child immunizations, communicable disease follow up, flu immunizations, lead testing, public health preparedness, and home visits to new moms and babies.

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Communicable Disease Control
Flu Vaccines
Public Health Nursing
Lead Testing
General Immunization
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Public health emergency preparedness.

Disease surveillance (responsibility shared with NHHSS)
a. School surveillance - absenteeism counts are collected weekly
b. West Nile Virus - dead bird collection and testing and mosquito trapping and testing
c. Rabies monitoring in animals and investigate potential human exposures
d. Other community health threats, as needed: mold, pertussis, food-borne illness

Scrubby Bear, an American Red Cross program that teaches proper hand-washing techniques to children in preschool through third grade.

Vaccinations for children.

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Hygiene
General Immunization
Communicable Disease Control
Physician Referrals
Public Health Nursing
General Health Education Programs
Pollution Control
Dental Care Referrals
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics

Environmental health services include:
- Private sewage disposal & water supply programs
- Food safety
- Food service sanitation program
- Vector control

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Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Building and Safety
Communicable Disease Control
Tap Water Testing
Public health program. Services include:
-- Home visitation program for pregnant women and parents with children from 0-5
-- Immunization Services
-- Foot Care
-- Homemaker Services
-- Emergency report system installation
-- Tobacco Prevention
-- Community Health Education
-- Communicable Disease Investigation
-- Wellness Screening
-- Procedure Visits

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Homemaker Assistance
Foot Screening
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Public Health Nursing
General Immunization
Emergency Alert
Communicable Disease Control
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Offers public health services to the residents of Pocahontas County. Services include Adult and Child Immunizations, Communicable Disease Program, Maternal Child Adolescent Health, Health Screenings, Assessment and Education, Emergency Preparedness, Lifeline, and a DME loan closet.

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COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Communicable Disease Control
General Immunization
Public Health Nursing
Communicable disease follow-up and education to control the spread of infection and illness.

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General Immunization
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Communicable Disease Control
Responsible for the reporting, investigation, and control of communicable disease and sexually transmitted disease. Tuberculosis (TB) screening available.

Investigation and reporting of communicable diseases, includes STD and HIV/AIDS, as well as referral for testing and treatment.

Public health agency.

Bioterrorism and disaster planning.

Referrals to other health care services as needed.

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General Immunization
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Public Health Nursing
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable disease control and surveillance.
Promotes environmental and personal health through health promotion, disease detection, disease prevention, education and regulation. In cooperation with community resources, assists the community and the citizens to assume responsibility for their individual health and the health of the community. This is accomplished through assessment of the health status of the community, policy development and leadership, and assurance that high-quality services are available and accessible to all persons. LLCHD works with city, county, and state government to encourage policies and regulations which promote and protect public health. Divisions include Director's Office, Animal Control, Dental Health and Nutrition Services, Environmental Public Health, Health Promotion and Outreach, Community Health Services, and Health Data and Evaluation.

Epidemiological Services provides leadership in public health assessment; collects, analyzes and disseminates information about community health status; facilitates community health planning and policy development; coordinates epidemiologic response; and provides public health programs and related community initiatives with epidemiologic support for program evaluation, planning and communication needs. The GIS component provides maps to analyze relationships in spatial data to identify high-risk areas.

Resource Information Management serves as a supportive, collaborative partner in a number of community activities.
Disease surveillance, investigation, and control of influenza, food-borne illness, whooping cough, flu, Fifth's disease, lice, MRSA, etc. Education and recommendations to schools, child care facilities and communities at large regarding disease prevention and control.

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Communicable Disease Control
General Immunization
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Offers free COVID-19 home test pickup and drop off; call for information. (Also available at other locations listed on the website.)

COVID-19 vaccines are not available at the public health clinic but are available at locations listed on the website: www.publichealth.pottcounty-ia.gov/public_health/communicable_diseases (or call the office).

Public health services includes adult flu clinic; children's immunization shots (through age 18); audits of immunization records for schools and licensed day cares; tuberculosis surveillance, control, and education; investigation of reportable diseases; head lice program, including chemical free supplies (Council Bluffs only); Hepatitis C surveillance, control, and education; prevention of communicable disease outbreaks.

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General Immunization
Flu Vaccines
AIDS/HIV Prevention Counseling
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Communicable Disease Control
Community Clinics
Public Health Nursing