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Provides continuous surveillance, investigation, and follow-up services. Reports communicable or infectious diseases.

Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery.  Coordinates Regional Medical Response System and Citizen Corps Network to ensure efficient post-disaster mitigation.

Prevents epidemics and the spread of contagious diseases.  Disease surveillance ensuring necessary precautions are being taken in order to effectively combat illness.

Protection against environmental hazards.  Offers free short and long term radon test kits for Panhandle residents.

Prevents injury, illness, and disability.  

Promotes and encourages healthy behaviors.  Significant emphasis on increasing physical activity, improving nutrition, and decreasing environmental tobacco smoke, along with programming promoting healthy hand hygiene and proper dental hygiene.  Technical assistance for worksite wellness programming utilizing an evidence-based process.

Diabetes Prevention Program offers lifestyle change programs that teach participants to make lasting lifestyle changes, like eating healthier, adding physical activity into their daily routine, and improving coping skills.

Provides public health services to the residents of Boone County. Services include blood pressure screening, case management for the Frail Elderly, communicable disease control,
care for yourself program (cancer screening program), emergency preparedness planning, immunization clinics, communicable disease control links, and Iowa Department of Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Offers public health emergency preparedness, Alert Iowa notification, community health navigation services, oral health screenings, disease surveillance and investigation, health education, homemaker services, immunizations, lead poisoning prevention screenings and assessment, maternal health education, tobacco use prevention and control, blood pressure checks and tuberculosis screenings.

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.

Public health services.

Investigation and reporting of communicable diseases, includes STD and HIV/AIDS, as well as referral for testing and treatment.

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

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

Provides education and prevention services for communicable diseases through a county government department responsible for overseeing public health initiatives and managing related functions.

Provides communicable disease follow-up, education, and prevention to control the spread of infection and illness.

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

Communicable disease control investigation and surveillance.

Offers home health care services. Will make home visits. Immunizations for communicable diseases for all age persons, health promotion and education. Also home care nursing, personal home care aide with limited homemaking services.

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.

Provides the following services:

-- Audiology Clinic

-- Breastfeeding

-- Consultation

-- Case Management

-- Colorectal Cancer Screening Program

-- Developmental Screening

-- Diabetes Prevention

-- Immunizations

-- Infectious Disease Surveillance

-- Nutrition Counseling

-- Prenatal and Postpartum Fairs

-- Stroke and Vascular Screening

-- Tobacco Cessation

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

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.

Investigates confirmed and suspected cases of reportable diseases by working with healthcare providers, schools, childcare staff and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Collection and analysis of data from infected and exposed individuals (surveillance) to identify the cause of diseases to prevent and control their spread from person to person. Also, provides Tuberculosis (TB) testing and treatment, treatment for partners of those diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV Medical Case Management.

Provides information for communicable diseases, health promotion and education.

Provides public health services to the residents of Boone County. Services include blood pressure screening, case management for the Frail Elderly, communicable disease control,
care for yourself program (cancer screening program), emergency preparedness planning, immunization clinics, communicable disease control links, and Iowa Department of Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

Promotes environmental and personal health through health promotion, disease detection, disease prevention, education and regulation. In cooperation with community resources, assists the community and the citizens to assume responsibility for their individual health and the health of the community. This is accomplished through assessment of the health status of the community, policy development and leadership, and assurance that high-quality services are available and accessible to all persons. LLCHD works with city, county, and state government to encourage policies and regulations which promote and protect public health. Divisions include Director's Office, Animal Control, Dental Health and Nutrition Services, Environmental Public Health, Health Promotion and Outreach, Community Health Services, and Health Data and Evaluation.

Epidemiological Services provides leadership in public health assessment; collects, analyzes and disseminates information about community health status; facilitates community health planning and policy development; coordinates epidemiologic response; and provides public health programs and related community initiatives with epidemiologic support for program evaluation, planning and communication needs. The GIS component provides maps to analyze relationships in spatial data to identify high-risk areas.

Resource Information Management serves as a supportive, collaborative partner in a number of community activities.

Provides education and prevention services for communicable diseases through a county government department responsible for overseeing public health initiatives and managing related functions.