We offer a wide range of programs and services to drive towards or vision of
"Healthy People, Healthy Community!"
Community Health
- Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program
- Immunization Clinic
- Public health messaging
- Educating private health providers
- Refugee Services
- Immunization records
- Health Services and Screenings
- Tuberculosis (TB) skin tests
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
- Certified Lactation Consultants
- Worksite Flu Clinic
Health Projects
- National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
- Epidemiology – Infectious Disease Monitoring
- Communicable Disease Investigation and Management including schools and daycares.
- Contact Investigation and Education
- Flu and ILI Surveillance and Reporting
- Lead level – Investigation, monitoring, and education.
- School surveillance – Illness monitoring and reporting.
- Tuberculosis (TB) monitoring, active and latent, case management, contact investigation and direct observation therapy.
- Every Woman Matters –
- Provide health coaching to women that are enrolled in Every Woman Matters-Wise Women program.
- Attend health fairs, encounter venues to reach woman ages 40-74 to provide resources.
- Provide breast and cervical navigation to woman.
- Provide colon cancer test kits to woman and men ages 50-74.
- Provide preventive screening education and help enroll woman to Every Woman Matters to get screened.
- Health Coaching
- Health Promotion – Education
- Healthy Smiles
- Minority Health Initiative (MHI) –
- National Diabetes Prevention Program offered to the community to prevent diabetes.
- Living Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Program offered to clients that have diabetes and their family members.
- Case management to MHI clients needing additional help with health related issues.
- Referrals to additional services or programs with a two-week follow up after being referred.
- Attend and organize health fairs in the community.
- Provide presentations to agencies and clubs explaining programs to the community.
- Provide interpretation services for clients.
- Presentations
- Worksite Wellness
Emergency Preparedness
- Hospital – Liaise with local hospitals on surge and capacity protections.
- Health Care – Train/assist/advice in health care emergency planning and exercising.
- PPE (personal protective equipment) – Provide PPE training and required.
- Regional Health Care – Work with regional health care coalition of family assistance center, sheltering, and mass fatalities planning.
- Local Partners – Work with local partners such as neighboring local public health departments, police, fire, EMS, ambulance, funeral homes, hospitals, long-term care facilities, pharmacists, in a responder and public health safety and disaster planning.
- Strategic – Plan, train, exercise elements of delivery of strategic national stockpile receipt staging and storing process including distribution of assets to the public in a public health emergency.
Environmental Health
- Complaints – Follow up on complaints for any of the programs listed below, and respond appropriately.
- Daycares – Request is sent from DHHS to complete a daycare inspection. Applies to all licensed daycares in Hall, Hamilton, and Merrick Counties.
- Education – Teach a part of Serve Safe class as well as a food safety class for the State Fair.
- Inspection of Body Art/Piercing – Permits and inspects facilities as part of Grand Island city code. CDHD provides permits.
- Inspection of Clean Indoor Air/Smoking Ban – Inspect complaints of individuals smoking in a business.
- Inspection of Commercial Animal Plants – Permits and inspects anyone who sells, grooms, or boards pets for the city of Grand Island only.
- Inspection of food – Perform food inspections for restaurants, schools, state/county fairs, temporary events, mobile food units/food trucks, food manufacturing/warehouses, convenience stores, and anyone selling food with a food permit.
- Inspection of Garbage Trucks – Permit and inspect all garbage trucks inside the city of Grand Island for code compliance.
- Inspection of Mobile Home Parks – Permits and inspects mobile home parks in Hall, Hamilton and Merrick Counties, with the exception of mobile home parks within the city of Grand Island.
- Inspection of Pools – Permit and inspect all public swimming pools and spas in Hall, Hamilton and Merrick Counties.
- Inspection of Recreational Camps – Inspect recreational camps in Hall, Hamilton and Merrick Counties for compliance with state codes.
- Inspection of Well and Septic – Some home loans require an inspection of private well and private septic systems.
- Mosquito Surveillance – Trapping, spraying, insecticide including working with local governments on insecticide spraying, larviciding and adulticiding for Hall County.
- Permitting of Premises.
- Radon test – Provide radon test kits.
- Water Laboratory – Test well waters for Coliform bacteria, Nitrate, Hardness, Fluoride, and pH.
