Columbia Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services

Description:

County health department responsible for preventing epidemics and the spread of disease, protecting against environmental hazards and injuries, promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors and responding to disasters and assisting communities in recovery. Services include summer food service programs, electric payment assistance, water payment assistance, birth certificates, death related records/permits, edcation discrimination assistance, employment discrimination assistance, health care discrimination assistance, breast examinations, mammograms, pap tests, HIV testing, STD screening, tuberculosis screening, medical equipment/services, prescription expense assistance, birth control counseling, contraception, pregnancy testing, postpartum care, community clinics, STD treatment, home nursing, childhood/adolescent/adult immunizations, flu vaccines, WIC, animal control, benefits screening, case/care management, homemaker assistance, personal care, adult in home respite care, smoking cessation, extreme cold warming center, and extreme heat cooling center.

Handicap Accessible?

Yes

Is Shelter?

No

Related Resource

Date of Official Change:

January 19, 2024

Legal Status:

Governmental