Prenatal Services
Offers examinations to pregnant women (laboratory work 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 Checks
Provides screening of medical and/or developmental problems for Medicaid-eligible
children from infancy to 20 years of age.
Newborn Screening
Provides metabolic blood tests to assess for metabolic abnormalities that can
cause mental retardation and other permanent disorders.
Dental Clinic
Provides dental services for children
Health Services for Special Health Needs:
Stroke and Heart Attack Prevention Program
Provides blood pressure 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.
Children's Medical Services
Serves children from birth to 21 years of age by providing various medical
needs. Persons can be referred by physicians or public health nurses. Specialty
clinics such as diabetes, seizure, hearing, cardiac, and orthopedics are provided.
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.
Child Safety Seat checks and fittings
*For more information on any of the services mentioned above contact the Gilmer
County Health Department.