Purpose

Our purpose as a Health Department is to provide Graham County residents with comprehensive, cost-effective, quality community health services. We strive to:

• Reduce preventable and communicable disease to the irreducible minimum.
• Ensure safe and healthy living conditions for persons being cared for in child care facilities.
• Decrease the number of persons at nutritional risk and promote optimal nutritional status.
• Reduce morbidity and mortality due to chronic disease.
• Promote optimal health for school age children.
• Reduce the incidence of maternal and child-related morbidity and morality.
• Reduce the occurrence of high risk and unintended pregnancies and provide education for health spacing and planning for children.
• Improve and maintain the optimum level of health and functioning for adults and advocate the least-restrictive living environment.
• Assist with the access of primary care for the uninsured, indigent, and others as needed.
• Ensure the safety of water supplies and private water well systems.
• Protect the public from food-borne illness.
• Minimize the risk of vector-borne disease and other animal-related human health hazards and associated nuisance conditions.
• Protect the public from environmental health and safety hazards.