Description:
Home care and Health services through County Department. he 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:
hotels
motels
campgrounds
tattoo parlors
swimming pools
Agent for the DNR for transient well water testing.
Some of our unique programs are Family Health Benefits Counseling, Peer Breastfeeding Counseling and Fiscal Agent for a 14 county Public Health Preparedness Consortium.