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by the staff at Island County Public Health (ICPH)
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- Provide Information & Referral
(Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality)
- Assist with Alternative Response
Services
- Camano Nursing Services
- Child Abuse Prevention - a home visiting program in collaboration with the Division of Children and Family
Services
- Child Death
Prevention Review:
Staff team of professionals who quarterly review each infant and child death in order to
understand what preventable components exist for each death; appropriate follow-up with
the community to educate about the applicable prevention measures.
- Children with Special
Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Case-management
- Communicable Disease Investigation: Investigate individual
reports of possible or confirmed communicable disease and provide appropriate follow-up/
intervention.
- Family Planning
Services
- Healthy
Baby home visitation program - a free home visit
by a public health nurse for every Island County newborn child; Parent Education
and Family Support
Alliance. Give us a call!
- Healthy Child Care,
Island County - consultation services offered to child care centers and home child care
providers. Visits by a health care team include assistance in the areas of safety,
immunizations, and children with special needs. The nurse is available for telephone
consultations and staff, student and parent training may also be scheduled.
- Coordinate an HIV/AIDS program
which includes counseling, testing and information about HIV/AIDS related issues: Includes
Sexually Transmitted Disease surveillance, assistance to local providers with reporting,
partner notification, and follow-up as necessary
- Immunizations for both children & adults, and for international travel; work with
community and providers to participate in central registry for an immunization tracking program for infants and
children; provide special school health immunization clinics for new vaccine
requirements for kids; conduct scheduled immunization
clinics throughout the county; provide Quarterly
Vaccine News
report for local providers.
- Jail Health program: set up medications
and provide basic primary evaluation for health concerns of the inmates.
- Make public health nurse visits to families and
individuals through special programs: Maternity
Support Services (MSS), Maternity Case Management (MCM), Early Intervention/Primary
Prevention, Personal Care Program, Parenting Education;
provide home visits to pregnant and parenting families referred through community
resources; phone consultation for families with problems/ issues; make referrals to other
community resources.
- Needle
Exchange Program
- Nutritional Counseling
for healthier living.
- Oral health
consultation and training to non-dental professionals, as well as screening for preschool
and school age children; oral health screening by WIC and other staff and appropriate
referrals and follow-up for treatment. Participate in community efforts to increase dental
access for low-income families; participate in a Dental Coalition to identify and address
oral health issues in the community.
- Passport Program:
Providing a continuum-of-care oversight for the health and safety of foster children, and
in-service training to foster parents and professionals regarding health-related issues
impacting children in foster care.
- Physical
Activity Project: Partnering with community members to engage themselves and
others in regular physical activities that promote good health.
- Screening, Chronic
Disease, and Prevention... A report on the health of Island County residents and
what you each can do for yourself. (.ppt slide presentation)
- Tuberculosis skin
testing and follow-up; skin testing for health care workers and other groups;
follow-up of positive skin tests including x-rays, medications (direct observed therapy),
and consultation from TB pulmonologist.
- Manage a supplemental food program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC);
provide supplemental nutritional foods such as cereals, juices, milk, eggs,
formula, etc. to pregnant and breastfeeding
women and children up to age five who are below 185% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
who have nutritional or medical need. Also provide nutritional
counseling for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Evidence Based 'Best Practices' in Public Health
ICPH
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