Community
What to Expect:
- Delicious Supper: Enjoy a chili dinner from Crazy Mountain Catering.
- Meet the Team: Get to know the Health Department staff.
- Learn About Our Programs: Discover the range of services we provide to Park County residents. Have your questions answered.
- Flu vaccinations and blood pressure checks available on site.
Interactive Displays and Family Activities: CHECK OUT exhibits and hands-on activities that highlight both the Environmental Health and Public Health programs in our Department.
- Environmental Health: Our team of two registered Sanitarians conducts inspections at restaurants, hotels, motels, short-term rentals, daycare centers, spas, and food trucks to ensure health and safety standards. They also manage permits for new septic systems and subdivision reviews in collaboration with the County Planning Department.
- Public Health: Our Public Health Nurse visits rural schools, offers health screenings (e.g., eye and hearing checks), assists students with medications, and provides health prevention lessons on topics like substance use, safe driving, and mental health first aid.
Special Programs:
- Communities That Care: This project works with city and county schools, businesses, and nonprofits to keep Park County a safe and healthy place for children. It’s a multi-year, voluntary initiative that promotes universal goals and strategies for the community.
- Public Health Emergency Planning: The Public Health team works alongside the Park County Office of Emergency Management to prepare and practice plans that will be needed in the event of disaster, natural or manmade, biologic, radiologic, chemical, intentional or accidental. This team also manages the Park County Current project, the TV monitors located in most of the grocery stores countywide. The monitors display messages from the Emergency Management office and other local and state government offices to keep residents and tourists aware of local government activities including urgent and emergent messaging.
- Immunization: Our team, including many community volunteers, offers vaccinations throughout the year for vaccine preventable illnesses. We arrange visits to long-term care facilities, businesses and schools. Pop up clinics are also held around the county for the general public in Cooke City, Gardiner, Livingston and Clyde Park/Wilsall.
- Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS): Our DIS handles reportable lab cases such as tuberculosis, influenza, high lead levels, and potential rabies exposure. When a case is identified, the specialist ensures the patient receives proper care and helps trace the source of the illness to prevent further spread.
- WIC Office: Provides food assistance, diapers, parenting support, nutrition education and connections to other programs that help build strong, healthy families.
- Behavioral Health: Health Department staff participate in a number of behavioral health programs around the county including the DUI Task Force, Mental Health Local Advisory Council, Treatment Court which helps people with substance abuse issues that also involve the justice system and the Crisis Response Team.
Join us for this family-friendly event on Wednesday, February 19th, at the Courthouse from 4-6 pm. Meet your neighbors, share a meal, and learn how public health works for you.
For more information, contact the Health Department at 406-222-4145.