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Vaccines for adults and children.

Blood pressure screenings during business hours.

Disaster preparedness.

Tobacco cessation information.

Radon testing.

Health education.

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.

Communicable disease investigation, follow-up and education to the community.

Offers immunizations, vaccines, family case management, pregnancy testing services, county school nursing, vision and hearing screenings, high-risk infant and maternal home visits, childhood lead poisoning prevention, Kid Care enrollment.

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

Provides Disease Prevention Specialists who investigates communicable disease to educate and prevent transmission or the spread of infectious diseases, performs immunization record audits in schools, investigates animal bite reports to assess for the risk of rabies transmission, and assists with emergency preparedness work.

Promotes optimal health among county residents by preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases. The health department conducts investigations for those diseases reportable to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

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.

Public Health Preparedness develops plans and ideas to help protect the community against threats such as pandemic influenza, biological or chemical agent, and natural disasters.

Public Health Preparedness staff actively work with other community agencies to work towards good communication and the sharing of resources.

Provides public health nursing services, including adult immunizations and communicable disease follow-up.

Environmental health services include:

• Private sewage disposal & water supply programs
• Food safety
• Food service sanitation program
• Vector control

Public health services.

Provides prevention of disease and maintenance of health for individuals and families in the community.

Services provided

- Communicable disease program.

- Communicable disease reporting and follow-up.

- Immunizations. - Foreign travel.

- STD/STI screening, reporting, treatment, and follow-up. 

- Tuberculosis screening, treatment, and follow-up 

- HIV counseling, testing, and referral.

- Chronic disease program.

The following screening services are offered as cash only payments -Blood Pressure check

- FREE. -Fasting blood sugar (included in lab panel).

-Hemoglobin A1C. -Fasting cholesterol.

-Fasting comprehensive metabolic panel-Liver panel.

-Lead Screening (Can also bill Medicaid.

-MMR Titer. -Varicella Titer.

-Hepatitis B Titer. -Pregnancy Test.

-TB Skin Test.

-Complete Blood Count (CBC).

-Prostate Antigen (PSA).

-Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH).

-Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP).

-Vitamin D.

Provides infection control training to community agencies and organizations and offers immunization programs, including COVID-19 vaccination clinics and general immunizations, to prevent the spread of diseases.

Offers to protect the health and welfare of residents through the identification of potential communicable disease problems and to control the spread of infectious disease within the county. Offers investigation and follow up on communicable diseases, and an immunization program. 

Provides programs and services protect public health by reducing the burden of communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases. Services include breast and cervical cancer screenings, through the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, tuberculosis screening, STI and HIV testing, smoking prevention, immunizations, and COVID-19 testing and vaccines.