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Public health services include:

- Family STEPS Home Visitation Program,

- Child and Adolescent Immunization Program,

- Vaccines for Adults Program,

- Child and Adolescent Health/Oral Health,

- Family Planning,

- Emergency Preparedness,

- Communicable Disease Investigation, and other initiatives to reduce health disparities.

Infectious disease surveillance, investigation of acute outbreaks, education, and consultation.

Health promotion and disease prevention education.

Emergency preparedness. Substance abuse prevention coalitions.

West Nile virus surveillance.

Referrals.

Immunizations.

Worksite Wellness including on-site employee health screenings and wellness programs.

School-based youth oral health program.

Investigates communicable disease cases and reports to the Illinois Department of Public Health and to the Centers for Disease Control. Educational materials on any communicable disease are available to county residents.

Provides information on communicable diseases and offers details about immunization programs, including general immunizations and COVID-19 vaccination clinics. 

Offers communicable disease follow-up and education to control the spread of infection and illness.

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

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 communicable disease surveillance (influenza, TB, whooping cough, foodborne illnesses, water related illnesses, Lyme Disease, other infectious diseases).

Provides services and education to promote and protect the health of Union County residents. Communicable Disease follow-up, Lead Education and Community Health Assessments are available.

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.

Provides information about communicable diseases.

Provides protection to the community through disease surveillance, outbreak detection and investigation, the implementation of disease control and prevention measures, and the mandated reporting to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Educational and referral services are available to enhance community awareness and knowledge of signs, symptoms, treatment, and available resources for infectious diseases.

Provides health maintenance visits, disease prevention, Public Health Preparedness, health education in the home and community, New Mom/New Baby visits, reportable disease follow up, communicable disease control, and immunizations.

Communicable disease follow-up and education to control the spread of infection and illness.

Offers public health services to the Keokuk County communities. Services include home care services and home care nursing, health care programs for women and children, prenatal care, general physicals, immunizations, blood pressure screenings, diabetes screenings, mental health administration, early childhood development, and environmental health services. Also provides information on communicable diseases.

Additional support includes homemaker assistance for families experiencing disruptions due to illness, disability, or other challenges, and personal care services to assist with hygiene, mobility, household tasks, and nutritional needs for individuals such as elderly people, people with disabilities, or recently discharged hospital patients.

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.

Provides public health services including promoting health lifestyles, preventive cancer screenings, STI/HIV testing, lead poisoning prevention, communicable disease follow-up, and emergency preparedness,

Provides public health services and 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.

Communicable disease follow-up.

Surveillance and investigation of communicable diseases are an ongoing function of Mills County Public Health (MCPH). Contact MCPH for questions concerning communicable diseases.

Offers home care, public health, immunizations, mental health administration, early childhood development, and environmental health services. Provides information on communicable diseases, routine general physical examinations to assess overall health and detect abnormalities, and birth control services to help individuals prevent conception

Provides prenatal care to ensure the health and well-being of pregnant individuals and their developing children through risk assessment, routine checkups, prenatal testing, and guidance on pregnancy-related concerns.

Provides well-baby care services, including health screenings and immunizations, to support the physical well-being and healthy development of infants and toddlers, with some programs extending to preschool-aged children.

Also offers comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services for sexually transmitted infections, including contact tracing to help prevent the spread of infections.

Investigates and tracks all infectious diseases that are identified in the Communicable Disease Codes of the Illinois Department of Public Health, including COVID-19.

Confidential HIV and STI/STD testing and counseling is offered to at-risk people.

Communicable disease control and surveillance.

Adult wellness clinic offers full lipid profile (Cholesterol) with glucose, tuberculosis clinic, and immunization clinic.

Provides public health services to Clarke County residents, including home care, immunizations, general physicals, and mental health administration. Programs for women and children offer early childhood development and lead poisoning screenings, which include blood tests to identify lead ingestion and home or clinic-based inspections to evaluate lead hazards. Additionally, the department provides environmental health services and information regarding communicable diseases.