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.
Health check
Provides screening of medical and/or developmental problems for Medicaid-eligible
children from infancy to 20 years of age.
Health Services for Special Health Needs:
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, 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 Fannin
County Health Department.