The Department

of Health and Wellness operates 18 health centers and provides the following

services to maintain public health:

Services for

children and youth. These includes the children first initiative, early

intervention for young children with developmental delays, violence prevention

program, 17 teen clinics, a teen mobile health van, college physicals,

vision and hearing screenings, peer educators, after-school mentoring,

health fairs, community outreach, and dental services for children ages

3-17.

Services for

women. These services include family planning, including a minimum of

13 prenatal visits for pregnant women; women's health; infant vitality

initiative to reduce infant mortality and morbidity and the high incidence

of low birth weight babies in Fulton County; WIC, a program to improve

the nutritional status of women and children, Parent Infant Intervention

Program to improve birth outcomes, self-esteem and positive infant-child

environment.

Communicable

disease services. Services in this area include sexually transmitted diseases

and HIV counseling, testing and treatment, and tuberculosis prevention

and treatment, including Ryan White funded services; epidemiological reporting

and surveillance of infectious diseases.

General medical

services include stroke and heart attack prevention programminimizing

risk factors through preventative education, early detection and hypertension

treatment.

Immunization

for adults and children

Community

health education and promotion division.

Services in

this division include education about risk factors including smoking,

prenatal care, child safety, breast cancer education; coordinate Safe

Kids in Fulton coalition, smoking cessation program, and immunization

campaigns.

Community

health planning includes creating partnerships and collaborating with

community organizations to improve access to health care.

Environmental

health focuses on enforcement and monitoring related to the Clean Indoor

Air Ordinance, sanitation, drinking water, food service, swimming pools,

and safe disposal of sewage.

Planning and

evaluation provides analysis of community health programs.

Emergency

medical services coordination includes emergency medical direction and

quality assurance to 911 communications center.

For more information

on the Department of Health and Wellness, visit the Fulton County Government

website at www.co.fulton.ga.us .