Provide Pack N Play portable cribs and Safe Sleep Survival Kits to families and caregivers that are unable to provide a safe sleep environment due to financial hardship. Survival Kit contains a sheet for the Pack N Play, a sleep sack for the infant, a bedtime storybook and educational materials for the parents. Family must come to Board of Health office to pick up Pack N Play and receive instruction on proper assembly and use before taking Pack N Play home.

Environmental services include septic, water, well, plumbing and food services inspections.

Provide Pack N Play portable cribs and Safe Sleep Survival Kits to families and caregivers that are unable to provide a safe sleep environment due to financial hardship. Survival Kit contains a sheet for the Pack N Play, a sleep sack for the infant, a bedtime storybook and educational materials for the parents. Family must come to the Board of Health office to pick up Pack N Play and receive instruction on proper assembly and use before taking Pack N Play home.

Offers anonymous/confidential HIV testing free of charge. Provides education and counseling about risks of HIV infection, lowering risk, staying healthy, as well as providing information on HIV and AIDS. Conducts educational presentations and will assist with developing policies and procedures for organizations.

Provides the following permits, licenses, and inspectional services (individual department phone numbers are listed behind each description): rat and rabies control, environmental health, nuisance complaints, landfill, trash truck, well water, and septic inspections (225-4362); plumbing permits and inspections (225-4421); housing inspections outside of the Dayton city limits (225-4428); food service operator licenses, bar, grocery, restaurant, swimming pool, hotel, and mobile home inspections (225-4460); lead paint poisoning preventions programs, information about lead paint hazards, and inspections for the presence of lead paint in homes (225-5553); and vending machines, mobile home park, motel, and mobile food service inspections (225-5915).

Works to prevent disease, prolong life and promote good health. Provides public health nursing, health promotion programs, disease control, birth and death information, and environmental health services. Addresses current and changing public health concerns.

LCHD's epidemiologist, public health specialists and public health nurses collect, investigate, analyze and distribute information on the incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases, outbreaks, health events, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases in Licking County. Information about outbreaks or unusual disease incidences are distributed to our healthcare providers through Health Alert Network notifications.

Provides protection of the public health by preventing the spread of rabies from wildlife to people, pets and other animals. Assists physicians in determining proper treatment for exposure victims.

Disease reporting, questions and concerns regarding infectious diseases and other public health emergencies, including nuisance complaints and animal bites.

Investigates reports of animal bites and exposure in an attempt to control the occurrence of rabies.

Investigates animal bites in accordance with state law. Upon receipt of an animal bite report the animal must undergo a 10-day quarantine period, either on the owner's premises or at a pound or kennel. The animal cannot be released without proper rabies vaccination. The bite victim will be notified of the results of the quarantine findings and advised on any further action necessary.

Provides information about the risk of Coronavirus to the public. Addresses questions about Coronavirus. Informs and prepares individuals to enact standard precautions to minimize the spread of Coronavirus. Provides information that includes more detailed data and information about coronavirus cases in the county.

Acts as the reporting agency for all reportable communicable diseases; conducts surveillance for the incidence and control of communicable diseases, and provides education on communicable diseases to the public as well as to institutions in the community.

Disease reporting, questions and concerns regarding infectious diseases and other public health emergencies.

Provides services that are directed toward IV drug users, crack users, and their sexual partners. Services provided through this program include: HIV and AIDS education, counseling, and testing; Hepatitis B testing; syphilis screenings; and blood pressure screenings. Every patient will also receive case management services.

Provides infectious disease investigation, including outbreaks, infection control consultation, education and sexually transmitted disease information and referral.

Responsible for restaurant and food sanitation inspections, plumbing inspections, tap water testing, and rabies control.

1. Provide consultation services and information to public regarding various vectors and their control. 2. Conduct a mosquito control program for the surveillance of encephalitis. 3. Conduct limited extermination services when the public health (on a large scale) is threatened.

Provide Pack N Play portable cribs and Safe Sleep Survival Kits to families and caregivers that are unable to provide a safe sleep environment due to financial hardship. Survival Kit contains a sheet for the Pack N Play, a sleep sack for the infant, a bedtime storybook and educational materials for the parents. Family must come to Board of Health office to pick up Pack N Play and receive instruction on proper assembly and use before taking Pack N Play home.

Conducts surveillance of communicable diseases reported in Darke County in compliance with the Ohio Department of Health Infectious Disease reporting requirements and CDC recommendations. Contact investigation and follow-up is performed by a public health nurse following strict confidentiality guidelines.

Offers diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB). Includes chest X-rays, skin tests, medication, lab work and outpatient medical services. If medication is required, a prescription will be written and filled on-site. Monitors the incidence of the disease within Cuyahoga County (physicians are required to notify this program within 24 hours of suspecting an active TB case). Admits those who have symptoms of active TB who otherwise cannot be isolated within their current environment, such as someone who is homeless (any hospital should admit someone under those circumstances).

Identify, report, and prevent the spread of infectious diseases through disease investigation, surveillance, and patient and community education.

Provide birth certificates for anyone born in Ohio and death certificates for Mahoning County residents; group home, rest home and nursing home inspections and licensure program; food and sanitary inspections; information on AIDS and free distribution on safer sex products; well child/infant immunizations and adult immunizations; reproductive health and wellness clinic; sexually transmitted infection clinic; rodent and mosquito control program.

Provide Pack N Play portable cribs and Safe Sleep Survival Kits to families and caregivers that are unable to provide a safe sleep environment due to financial hardship. Survival Kit contains a sheet for the Pack N Play, a sleep sack for the infant, a bedtime storybook and educational materials for the parents. Family must come to Board of Health office to pick up Pack N Play and receive instruction on proper assembly and use before taking Pack N Play home.