Northern Kentucky Independent Health Department
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Northern Kentucky Health Department
610 Medical Village Drive
Edgewood, KY 41017
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- Phone:
- 859.341.4264
- Fax:
- 859.578.3689
- Email:
- Contact form
- Website:
- http://www.nkyhealth.org
The Northern Kentucky Health Department serves the residents and visitors of Boone, Campbell, Grant and Kenton Counties of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Health Department provides the functions of community assessment and surveillance, public health policy development, and the assurance of the essential public health services in the community.
Health Department’s Services :
Environmental Health and Safety is responsible for enforcing state regulations that deal with many of the community safety and sanitation issues. This division addresses food safety issues (restaurant inspections and food handlers training), vector control (rabies and West Nile Virus investigations), sewer and sanitation inspections, and the monitoring of public environments for disease control (swimming pool inspections, animal bites). In addition, Environmental Health and Safety provides education and monitoring devices for radon gas, and helps coordinate the agency's disaster preparedness efforts, such as the Medical Reserve Corps program.
Community Health Promotion services are provided through a wide variety of programs, which assess the community’s health status and plan to address health problems, prevent disease through lifestyle changes, and provide for the needs of vulnerable populations when gaps in services exist. Tobacco prevention and control, anger management, violence and bully prevention, physical activity and nutrition, and HIV prevention are examples of the many health promotion and education services. In addition, the Health Department is the sole provider of case management services for individuals who are HIV positive and their families.
Clinical Services provides immunizations to children and adults, well child examinations for children, and family planning services for women. The WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutritional supplement program is also coordinated through Clinical Services. WIC provides nutritional counseling and healthy food to childbearing women and their children. Many other preventive health services are also provided through this division, including home visits for new parents and their babies, School-Based Health Centers, screening, self-care education and management of diabetes, arthritis and cancer, and disease investigation, surveillance and prevention through epidemiology services, day care audits and disease prevention education.
Mission :
The Mission of the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department is to provide leadership in community health assessment, prevention of disease, treatment and/or referral, policy development, and assurance of quality services. Carrying out our Mission will protect and promote the health of the community and enhance individual quality of life. Board and Staff of the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department are guided by four core values. These values are used to measure the rightness and wrongness of all we do.
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