 Protecting the public’s health in Sandusky County means many things. It means working with other providers and responders to ensure that we can mount an effective response to a major biological event like pandemic flu. It means providing flu shots for thousands of county residents in an orderly and efficient manner. It means providing nutritional supplements for low income residents to assure that mothers and children are healthy. It means helping elderly persons to remain independent and at home as long as possible through homemaker and home health services. It means investigating any and all outbreaks of communicable disease. It means helping infants in their first three years with developmental delays. It means immunizations for children and working with them at school age to teach them skills to resist risky and unhealthy behaviors. It means ensuring that the food and water supplies are safe and clean.
These are just some of the basic protections provided by your local health department. New challenges to our funding and programming have arisen as we experience the pressures of the decline in the economy. Ironically, in hard economic times, demand for our services goes up as our funding is reduced. This requires that the health department shoulder extra burdens without additional resources.
We are making the best
use of our available resources and continually searching for outside
funding opportunities to ensure that the needs of our residents are
met. |
