Mission statement
Provide preventive health care education, referral and home visiting services to clients in our community focusing on achieving optimal individual and family health.
- Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program
- Communicable, Preventable Disease Program
- Family Planning Services
- HIV Prevention Programs
- Parent and Child Health Programs
- Perinatal Program
- Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic
- Women, Infant and Children Nutritional Program
- Women Health Care
- Well Child and Adult Immunization Program
- Travel Consultation/Vaccine Program
Program purpose
- To provide accessible, affordable, high-quality health, nutrition, referral and support services to families in Josephine County
- To be a resource for breast-feeding education and support in our community during the prenatal and postpartum periods to promote mother/child bonding and increase the nutritional well being of newborns and mothers
- To provide nutrition and preventative health services to targeted pregnant women, infants and children involved in all parent-child programs that will ensure positive health outcomes
- To provide education to parents and promote the use of fluoride, either through drinking water or use of fluoride mouthwash or tablets
- To maximize WIC caseload to assure high-risk families receive nutritional counseling and needed food supplements
- To collaborate with local providers and stakeholders in providing a system of preventative-based health care for families to assure early detection and follow up of actual or potential health problems and reduce the incidence of low birth weight infants in Josephine County
- To advocate for and collaborate with partners to provide education and parenting support and information to all first time parents to help strengthen the family unit and reduce the potential for child abuse
- To support women in the birth of a healthy baby by providing help in obtaining Oregon Health Plan, referral to a physician and providing in-home education on pregnancy and newborn care
- To provide school-based health services that focus on prevention and include student assessment, referral and appropriate follow-up with parent or guardian
- To provide professional nurse consultation in schools for faculty and parents of children with special needs
- To protect the children in our community by providing educational materials to families in all parent-child programs on the dangers of drug and alcohol use
- To work with community partners to provide adequate immunization levels for children and adults, focusing on children ages 0-2 years of age in reaching the state benchmark of 90 percent complete by age 2
- To actively participate in coordination and implementation of community planning that supports the “No Wrong Door” philosophy for client care in Josephine County
- To provide family planning services for the Reproductive Health Program to support individuals in planning the number and spacing of their children
Josephine County Clinical Services ensures compliance with public health laws, rules and local ordinances and provides prevention services to keep our community a safer place in which to live.
Identified mandates
- Minimum Standards for Oregon Local Health Departments/Oregon Conference of Local Health Officials, Oregon Health Division Grant Program Assurances, Oregon Mothers Care Protocol, National Fetal and Infant Mortality Guidelines, Oregon Medical Assistance Program, Public Law 103National Voter Registration ACT, Code of Federal Regulations Women, Infants and Children program policies, and legislation
- ORS 431,140(4), ORS 336.455, ORS433.235 – 433.284
- OAR 333–019-0010 through 0015, OAR 333–19–0036, OAR 333–014-0050
