Mission
The department's mission was adopted in 2013 and states, "It is our mission to engage, encourage, and build community partnerships for the purpose of identifying and promoting a healthy living environment for the stakeholders of Pottawatomie County."
Essential Services for Public Health
The Health Department strives to meet the 10 essential services for public health by:
- Assuring a competent public and personal health care workforce
- Developing policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
- Diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in the community
- Enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
- Evaluating effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
- Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
- Linking people to needed personal health services and assuring the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
- Mobilizing community partnerships and actions to identify and solve health problems
- Monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems
- Researching for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems