Public Health Communicable Disease Prevention and Surveillance
In order to help maintain the health of our community, a team of Public Health
Nurses investigate individual cases and outbreaks of reported communicable
diseases.. We work with the county Health Officer, an epidemiologist, the
Environmental Health Division and the Public Health Laboratory to control and
contain the spread of diseases, moniter disease trends, and provide current
statistics and other information to doctors, hospitals, the public and news
media. We also provide education or preventive treatment.
A Public Health Nurse is on-call each weekday to receive and respond to these reports, and a 24-hour response system is available after hours to provide Public Health support for providers reporting diseases. Phone: (707) 268 2182 After hours, Holidays, & Weekends: Ask the Sheriff to page the Health Officer (707) 445-7251
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