Nursing Division Services

ADULT DAY CARE
The Adult Day Services Program provides day care for seniors 60 years of age or older who would be unable to live at home without this type of service. The center is staffed with a registered nurse, an activities coordinator and a van driver who provides transportation to the center for participants. Individualized activity programs, field trips and medical assessments are offered to all clients.

CHILDHOOD LEAD-POISONING PREVENTION PROGRAM
The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program provides comprehensive follow-up and support services to lead-poisoned children in Mahoning County. A Pediatric Coordinator and Licensed Lead Risk Assessors visit children's homes to determine sources of lead exposure, teach prevention techniques to parents, and make referrals to support agencies. The Program provides lead poisoning prevention resource material and conducts lead specific programs for medical providers.  

CHILDREN WITH MEDICAL HANDICAPS PROGRAM
The Nursing Division provides public-health nursing services to children who have special health-care needs. Public-health nurses coordinate services provided to handicapped children by health and social service agencies. Public-health nurses can also arrange for diagnostic services to rule out a potentially disabling condition.

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE INVESTIGATIONS AND CONTROL
The Nursing Division receives and investigates reports of communicable diseases within the Mahoning County General Health District. Public-health nurses also serve as consultants and teachers of methods to prevent and control communicate disease transmission in child day care centers, nursing homes, residential care centers and schools.

IMMUNIZATIONS
The Nursing Division offers childhood and adult immunizations, foreign travel immunizations and flu shots.

PRENATAL AND WELL-CHILD SERVICES
The Nursing Division holds well-child clinics at convenient locations around the county, and offers prenatal services through contract provider members of the Mahoning County Child and Family Health Services Consortium.

REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
The Regional Resource Center (RRC) serves Mahoning County as well as 27 other counties in eastern Ohio by providing information about child lead-poisoning. The RRC's efforts are directed toward the Healthy People 2010 goal to eliminate childhood lead poisoning.  The RRC works to ensure that children throughout the region have access to quality lead poisoning prevention, detection and treatment resources. These efforts are accomplished primarily through educational programs for professionals and the community, assistance in creating community-based collaboratives, and linking families and community agencies with resources at the Ohio Department of Health.

SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES
The Nursing Division assigns a full-time public health nurse to the Springfield School District and provides hearing, vision, and scoliosis screening in other Mahoning County school districts. Public health nurses are also assigned to the Mahoning County Educational Services Center and the Mahoning Youngstown Community Area Partnership Head Start programs.

TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC
The Tuberculosis Clinic provides TB skin testing, medical evaluation, tuberculosis treatment and outreach services for Mahoning County residents.