Services offered at PCHD

The Polk County Health Department provides a wide variety of programming including:

• Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control
• Women Infants and Children (WIC)
• Reproductive Health
• Tobacco Control
• Wisconsin Well Woman Program
• Birth to 3
• Prenatal Care Coordination
• Jail Nursing
• School Nursing
• Childhood Lead Screening
• Agent for the state for licensing and inspecting:
  • all retail food establishments
  • hotels
  • motels
  • vacation rentals
  • campgrounds
  • body art
  • swimming pools
• Agent for the DNR for transient well water testing.
• Radon information and testing kits

Some of our unique programs are Family Health Benefits Counseling, Peer Breastfeeding Counseling and Fiscal Agent for a 14 county Public Health Preparedness Consortium.

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