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Pickens County General Health Services:


Family Planning Services
Provides birth control information, exams, and birth control methods to interested persons.

High Risk Program
Provides for obstetrical care through a private physician for eligible at-risk pregnant women.

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 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:

Sickle Cell Screening and Counseling Programs
Serves children from birth to 21 years of age by providing medical screening and education about sickle cell disease and other abnormal blood disorders. Contact your physician or health department for a referral.

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:

Community Health Planning
Provides health data for the purpose of analyzing each local community's strengths and future health needs.

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 Pickens County Health Department.