Cherokee County Health Services

• Vital Records (Woodstock Clinic)
  Birth and Death certificates
• Prenatal Services (Canton Clinic)
  Offers examinations to pregnant women (listen to baby's heartbeat, laboratory work, test, and nutritional counseling and education).
• Family Planning Services
  Provides birth control information, exams, and birth control methods to interested persons.
• Presumptive Eligibility
  Provides Medicaid coverage to income-eligible pregnant women during the Medicaid application processing period.
• Perinatal Case Management
  Provides a person to person approach which weaves together resources, including health and social services, for pregnant women to allow for healthy pregnancies resulting in healthy babies.
• Babies Can't Wait/Child Tracking Program
  Identifies and follows high-risk infants and children and provides a coordinated approach to health care for them.
• Well Baby
  Provides complete physical examinations to children from infancy to 6 years of age including screening tests, immunizations, and nutritional counseling.
• Breast and Cervical Cancer Program
  The Breast and Cervical Cancer Program provides screening and follow up services to low income, uninsured/underinsured women throughout Georgia who meet eligibility requirements.
• Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
  This program is a special nutrition program that provides nutrition education, food supplements and referrals to health care providers to eligible pregnant, breastfeeding or postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five.
• Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Services
  Provides physical examinations, lab tests, and treatment of STDs, as well as follow-up for identified cases. Also provides AIDS testing and counseling services.
• Infectious Diseases
  Includes tuberculosis
• General Nursing Services
  Provides immunizations, minor sick child visits, blood tests, hearing, vision, dental screening, tuberculosis screening and pregnancy tests.
• Immunizations
  Provides immunizations for all ages with an emphasis on adequate immunization in infants up to two years of age.
• Child Health
  Children's First, Babies Can't Wait, limited Sick Visits.
• Dental Health (Canton Clinic)
• Health Education Services
  Provides educational services to individuals, community groups, churches, and public and private schools which are presented by nurses, nutritionists, health educators and other staff members.

*For more information on any of the services mentioned above contact the Canton or Woodstock Health Department.