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Provides free, anonymous and confidential counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS, and provides confidential partner notification assistance to providers for their HIV positive and AIDS diagnosed patients.

Offers regularly scheduled rabies clinics throughout the county for cats, dogs and ferrets. Also provides information and follow up for humans or pets that have experienced an animal bite or possible rabies exposure. If bitten by or encountered a wild or domestic animal that could have rabies, call Public Health or seek health care.

Provides seasonal flu and pneumonia vaccines, along with information and public awareness of the flu, how to prevent it, and what to do immediately if anyone comes in contact with someone with symptoms of the flu. The Seasonal Flu shot also includes the H1N1 strain. Please Note: Children under 18, pregnant women, or adults with chronic medical conditions should receive the vaccine from their primary doctors or obtain a prescription for the vaccines.

Promotes and protects the health of all who live, work, and play in Nassau County. The mission is accomplished through direct services and community partnerships in the following areas: Development and maintenance of individual and community preparedness for public health hazards and events; Investigation, prevention, and control of communicable diseases; Prevention of environmental health hazards through assessment, regulation, and remediation; Promotion of healthy lifestyles through outreach and education and Provision for evaluation and services to individuals, children, and families that have developmental delays and concerns. Call for detailed information.

Primary services include:

• Monitoring the community for the presence of communicable diseases;
• Providing information on communicable diseases, including preventative measures, to members of the medical community, the public, and individuals exposed to communicable diseases;
• Investigating outbreaks or unusual occurrences of disease, then instituting or recommending appropriate control measures;
• Investigating foodborne illnesses that occur in Erie County;
• Coordinating follow-up on animal bites and providing information on the treatment and risk of rabies;
• Compiling a community health assessment that provides information on births, deaths, etc., as a resource for planning or evaluation.

Provides rabies information, monitoring, and vaccinations available to those who own pets, and or those who have been exposed or potentially exposed with an animal suspected of having rabies.

Tuberculosis screening, health education, outreach to those at risk, and treatment services are available.

Provides a program that trains inmates in the Prisoners for AIDS Counseling and Education (PACE), which offers AIDS/HIV education to individuals in jail or prison.

Provides a youth drop-in center and community youth center that focuses its programming on the physical and mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth (13-24 yrs) and their straight allies in the Southern Tier.

Services include:STI Testing and TreatmentTB Investigation and TreatmentImmunizationsAccess to cancer screenings, including mammograms, pap smears and colon cancer services are offered to those with or without insurance. We offer a sliding fee for those who may qualify.

The Environmental Health Division is responsible for enforcing NYS Public Health Law and the State Sanitary Code in Schoharie County. The division provides services, guidance and education, which prevents illness, improves people's health, protects the environment and enhances the quality of life for all Schoharie County residents.

Provides a wide variety of services essential to the health and well-being of all Genesee County Residents. Service areas include public water supply protection, community sanitation and food protection, private water and sewage disposal systems, realty subdivision plan review, public health nuisances, residential lead investigations, chemical emergencies, rabies investigations, and enforcement of both the Adolescent Tobacco Use and Prevention Act (ATUPA) and the NYS Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA). The Environmental Health division also operates multiple anti-rabies immunization clinics annually to administer vaccines to domestic animals, including cats, dogs, and ferrets, in order to reduce the spread of the potentially life threatening disease.

Provides free, anonymous and confidential counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS, and provides confidential partner notification assistance to providers for their HIV positive and AIDS diagnosed patients.

Works to prevent, control and eliminate tuberculosis in Suffolk County. The BCD will accomplish this mission through public health surveillance, nurse case management, contact tracing, policy development, health care professional consultation, technical assistance, supervision, regulation and education. Call for detailed information of programs and services offered.

Provides free, anonymous and confidential counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS, and provides confidential partner notification assistance to providers for their HIV positive and AIDS diagnosed patients.

Provides education and prevention information on various communicable disease, such as AIDS/HIV, Sexually transmitted diseases, TB, and other public health hazards.

Provides health information and referrals through telephone counseling by registered nurses. Call for free health information or assistance including free health information, physician and service referrals, program registration information, disease management assistance, post-discharge support for patients and families, pre-procedure instructions for diagnostic testing, follow-up for health screens and post-discharge care management for open-heart patients, including patient education and assistance with medications.

Responsible for implementing programs and providing information to help individuals live healthier lives by minimizing environmental health threats. Some efforts are targeted to the population at large, such as monitoring of public and private drinking water supplies, food safety in restaurants, fire safety in hotels, and permitting of mass gatherings. Other programs target specific needs such as interventions to prevent illness from rabies, lead poisoning, failing septic systems, and sale of tobacco products to minors.

Provides services to prevent the occurrence and spread of communicable disease. The Bureau maintains surveillance for each disease through investigation performed by experienced epidemiological staff. Surveillance activities include identifying patterns and clusters to find common source outbreaks and tracing chains of infection to their origin. The Bureau encourages recommended adult immunizations and provides regular MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccination clinics for college students. The Bureau operates a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Control Unit, investigating reported cases of Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV/AIDS. The Unit initiates disease intervention strategies which include interview of the index patient, counseling and referrals as needed, contacts & partner notification and follow-up and investigation of possible clusters. Medical providers are contacted to ensure treatment is completed. Clinical staff are available 24 hours, seven days a week to respond to urgent public health disease inquiries or issues.