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Mission

To create a healthy place for all to live, work, and play by preventing disease in the community, empowering people to make better choices, and promoting overall health and wellness.

Vision

To create programs and services that allow and encourage the healthy choice to be the easy choice, operate in a sustainable fashion that reflects responsible stewardship, lead by example in the community, and manage our organization to effectively face current and future public health challenges.

Strategic Plan

The Strategic Plan is a guide that our staff uses to develop strategies, make decisions, and allocate resources.

Priorities for 2018 through 2022 are:

1. Link to needed services
2. Expand coordinated education and prevention
3. Improve weight issues and obesity
4. Strengthen organizational efficiency and effectiveness
   
   

About Us

Lorain County Public Health creates healthy communities for all to live, work, and play. We protect the well-being, prevent disease, and promote overall health for the 307,000 residents of Lorain County, Ohio who we serve.

We are responsible for preventing disease and promoting health in all cities and townships in Lorain County except the City of Vermilion, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Erie County Health Department. We are a collaborative agency that values partnerships as we work together for the health of us all in Lorain County.

Programs and Services

Programs and services for the five internal divisions at Lorain County Public Health are:

Administrative Services

• Birth and death certificates
• Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
• Data analysis
• Financial management
• Information technology and IT systems management
• Accounts and billing
• Grants management
• Public health accreditation
• Strategic planning
• Performance management and program evaluation
• Continuous quality improvement (CQI)
• Human resources
• Administrative support services

Community Health

• Child and Adult vaccines
• Travel Health & Vaccines
• Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone
• HIV Testing
• Hepatitis C testing
• Children with Medical Handicaps (CMH) Program
• School Health
• Prescription assistance
• Premature infants clinic
• Lead testing for children
• Cribs for Kids for Safe Sleep
• Communicable disease prevention
• Children Services consultation
• Adult Protective Services consultation

Environmental Health, Emergency Preparedness, and Epidemiology

• Food safety 
• Household sewage 
• Solid waste 
• Commercial and semi-public sewage 
• Private water systems 
• Emergency preparedness 
• School/institution environmental safety inspections 
• Vector control 
• Nuisances 
• SmokeFree Ohio 
• Communicable disease prevention 
• Healthy Homes program and lead poisoning prevention 
• Beach water quality sampling 
• Body art facilities inspections 
• Public pools and spas inspections 
• Campground inspections 
• Animal bites and rabies control

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention

• Built environment improvements
• Car seat program
• Coalition building
• Coalition for Quality Aging
• Common VIEW
• Chronic disease prevention
• Diabetes prevention
• Emergency communications
• Food systems planning
• Health communications
• Healthy eating
• Keystone Empowers You
• Live Healthy Lorain
• Live Healthy Oberlin
• Media relations
• Motor vehicle injury prevention
• North Ridgeville Heart & Sole
• Safe Communities Coalition
• Safe Routes to School
• School Health
• Self-monitoring of blood pressure
• Shared use agreements
• Tobacco cessation and prevention
• United We Sweat
• Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child initiatives
• Worksite wellness

WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)

• Nutrition education
• Breastfeeding education and support
• Supplemental highly nutritious foods
• Iron-fortified formula
• Referrals to prenatal and pediatric healthcare
• Referrals to maternal and child health and human services programs
• Participation in WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
  
  

Learn more about us:

• LCPH Leadership
• Annual Reports
• History of Public Health in Lorain County, Ohio