Prenatal Services
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.
Health Services for
Special Health Needs:
Stroke and Heart Attack
Prevention Program
Provides blood pressure and diabetes screening, education, monitoring, treatment,
and follow-up.
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.
Services for Healthier
Communities:
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.
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.