Programs & Services

Blood Lead Toxicity Prevention Program

The goal of the Blood Lead Program is to provide preventive lead toxicity information to caregivers and the general public to prevent and control lead toxicity in children.

Breast & Cervical Cancer Control Program

The Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program is a federally funded program that provides screening services to underserved, uninsured women in Wayne County.

Care Management of At-Risk Children (CMARC)

Our mission is to work with families to support and empower them in meeting the needs of their children.

Care Management for High Risk Pregnancies (CMHRP)

Child Health Services

The Child Health Clinic encourages healthy growth and development to reduce the risk of illness for children 2 months - 21 years of age. This is done through prevention, early identification, treatment and intervention.

Communicable Disease Control

The Wayne County Health Department’s General Communicable Disease program works closely with community members, clinicians, private organizations and the state communicable disease to control and prevent communicable diseases in our county.

Environmental Health

Emergency Preparedness

Family Planning Program

The Family Planning Program provides confidential pregnancy prevention to females and eligible males and initial Level I infertility services to females of childbearing age.

Health Education / Health Promotion Division

The goal of the Health Education/Health Promotion Division of the Wayne County Health Department is to provide health information and to promote positive policy and environmental changes that will encourage local citizens to make healthier lifestyle choices, thereby improving their health and overall sense of well being.

Child Care Health Consultation

The Child Care Health Consultation program works with child care providers and parents that have children ages 0-5 years of age.

Immunizations

The Wayne County Health Department Immunization program works to protect the community from vaccine preventable disease by providing immunization services.

Laboratory

There are several screening clinics at the Wayne County Health Department.

Maternity

The Wayne County Health Department Maternal Health Program provides prenatal care to eligible women of Wayne county without regard to race, color, national origin or handicap condition.

Medical Nutrition Therapy Program

The Wayne County Health Department Nutrition Section provides Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) for eligible Wayne County residents whose health is threatened by chronic, episodic or acute conditions for which nutrition therapy is a critical component of medical management.

Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Department provides supportive pharmaceutical services to all programs offered by the Wayne County Health Department.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic

The Wayne County Health Department Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) clinic provides screening, testing, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

Sickle Cell Screening

Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited blood disorder which affects the shape of the red blood cells.

Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program

The Wayne County Health Department tuberculosis control program works to identify, treat and prevent the spread of tuberculosis disease in Wayne County.

WIC Eligibility

WIC is available to pregnant, breast feeding and postpartum women, infants and children up to age 5.

Women, Infants, Children Program (WIC)

The program provides a combination of nutrition education, supplemental foods, breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals for health care.