About Public Health
Public health promotes and protects the health of our community. At Lincoln County Public Health, we aim to create environments where everyone can live safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives.
We focus on key health factors like access to care, healthy environments, and education. By working with partners, we prevent disease, respond to emergencies, and help people make informed health decisions.
Our programs include:
- Disease Prevention and Harm Reduction: Immunizations, tracking disease trends, and harm reduction services that meet people where they are at.
- Emergency Preparedness: Preparing for natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other threats.
- Environmental Health: Ensuring clean air, water, and food.
- Health Promotion: Education to prevent illness and promote wellness.
- Maternal, Child, and Family Health: Supporting healthy families and child development.
Public health is a community effort. Explore our website to learn more about our work and how we can create a healthier Lincoln County together.
Mission
To promote health, well-being, and recovery by providing high-quality services that protect, heal, and empower everyone in Lincoln County and advance health equity for all.
Vision
A community committed to optimal health, wellness, and recovery for all, including diverse and historically marginalized people, wherein everyone has equitable access to high-quality, reliable, and timely services.
Values
Collaboration | Accountability | Trust | Community | Compassion | Adaptability | Diversity and Equity
Guiding Principles
- Planning and service delivery are done through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Health and Human Services (HHS) staff strive to maintain an atmosphere of trust, compassion, and respect for clients and each other.
- HHS staff assume good intentions and keep an open heart and mind when engaging with others.
- The HHS leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and listens along the way.
- HHS staff strive for ongoing quality improvement.
- HHS staff are good stewards of the public dollar and the public trust.
- When available, data is used to drive HHS decisions.
- HHS staff prioritize the well-being, dignity, and preferences of the people we serve.