Women’s Health

The Women’s Health program includes the following services: Family Planning, Perinatal Case Management, Pregnancy Related Services and Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening.
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Child Health

The Child Health Program includes the following programs and services: Children 1st, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, Babies Can’t Wait, Children’s Medical Services, and Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) Services (also known as Health Check).
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Environmental Health

Provide primary prevention through a combination of surveillance, education, enforcement, and assessment programs designed to identify, prevent and abate the environmental conditions that adversely impact human health.
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Immunizations

Immunizations provided by local health departments and other agencies have decreased diseases dramatically. Examples of vaccine preventable diseases include smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, meningitis, hepatitis A and B, diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough), to name a few.
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Nutrition Services

The Office of Nutrition Services provides nutrition education, high risk nutritional counseling, lactation counseling, and supplemental foods. The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program serves women who are pregnant, non-lactating up to six months postpartum, and lactating up to twelve months postpartum, and infants and children up to five years of age who are at nutritional risk.
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Epidemiology & Surveillance

Provides infectious and chronic disease investigation, management, education, and prevention services for the Southwest Georgia population. Epidemiology staff perform routine surveillance for over 70 notifiable diseases and provide key disease prevention to the community.
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