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BLUE EARTH COUNTY
HUMAN SERVICES
Adoption | Adult Services | Children & Family Services | Community Health |
Development
Disabilities | Family
Day Care Licensing | Child Care Assistance | Financial
Assistance |
Food Programs | Health Care Programs |
Foster
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Mental Health Services |
Sexual Violence Resources Page | SHIP | Vulnerable Adult/Adult
Protection
Community Health
- Child and Teen Checkups
- Communicable Disease Control
- Gun Safety Grant
- Health Education
- Home Health Care
- Immtrack – Regional Immunization Registry
- Maternal and Child Health
- Maternal and Child Health Grant
- Minnesota Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program
- Personal Care Attendant Assessment
- PIP – Partners In Parenting
- Preadmission Screening/Alternative Care
- Safe Communities Coalition
- SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- TFCC – Tobacco-Free Communities for Children Grant
- WIC – Women, Infants, and Children
Child and Teen Checkups – For children, birth to age 21, to promote early detection and treatment of health-related problems.
Communicable Disease Control – Broad preventative nursing aspects which include: giving nursing service where communicable disease exists, assisting with plans for immunization programs, teaching preventative and control measures to families and communities. This also includes responding to epidemics by having clinics to update immunizations, counseling, and information giving in regard to educating the public on communicable disease control.
We are the only agency in the county dealing with tuberculosis epidemiological survey and follow-up. We participate in the care of the client, dealing with medications, counseling, locating contacts, screening via Mantoux testing, and making referrals to physicians for follow-up of positive reactors.
Gun Safety Grant – The goals of Stop Gun Injuries and Deaths are to view firearm injuries and deaths as a public health problem, build upon „grass root¾ efforts across Minnesota, and create informed and data-driven public policy dealing with gun violence.
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Health Education – This program is a resource for health education and information and referral services (i.e., AIDS/ sexually-transmitted diseases, breast self-exam). |
Home Health Care – Skilled nursing care provided to the ill and disabled at home for the purposes of restoring health or minimizing the effects of illness and disability under written medical orders from a family physician. Home health aide services include personal cares on a part-time basis under nursing supervision.
Immtrack (A Regional Immunization Registry) – This Joint Powers Agreement Project is between Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca, and Watonwan Counties which focuses on protecting the public against vaccine-preventable diseases utilizing a centralized computer system to integrate immunization information from various sources to assist participating health care providers in completion of age-appropriate immunizations in a timely manner.
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Maternal and Child Health – Public health nurse visitation for the purpose of reinforcement and ongoing teaching of maternal and infant/young child health care for high-risk mothers, infants, and families with young children. |
Maternal/Child Health Grant – Components of grant project are:
- Work together with a local school district personnel, and other local health providers to reduce barriers preventing high-risk, low-income pregnant women and/or children from accessing services; the linkages among existing service providers; and provide informational and resource material to other providers and the general public.
- Provide case management services to high-risk pregnant women and/or children.
- Have a staff liaison with the local TAPP (Teenage Parent Program) to provide assessment, physical monitoring, counseling, and educational services to TAPP participants.
- A family health nutrition educator to improve the nutritional habits of high-risk, low-income pregnant women and/or children.
Minnesota Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (MBCCCP) Outreach Grant – Outreach efforts are to women, ages 50+, for free mammograms and pap smears.
Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Assessment/Reassessment – Medical Assistance recipients requiring personal care attendant services need an assessment by the county public health nurse (PHN) in order to access the program. Annual reassessments by the County PHN are required to continue those services. This also includes those recipients receiving PCA services on the MR/RC Waiver. The County PHN is authorized to decide the appropriate level of care, develop a service plan, and recommend the necessary amount of PCA service and RN supervision of PCA services. This is a mandated program in Minnesota.
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PIP (Partners in Parenting) – This program is for families of newborns which through interviewing and home visiting by a family support worker assists in strengthening the parent-child relationship up to age 5 of the child, if needed. |
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Pre-admission Screening/Alternative Care/Elderly Waiver/Community Alternatives for Disabled Individuals/Community Alternative Care – Screening services or alternative care services for adults that help prevent or delay the need for nursing home care or individuals under age 65 who are at risk for residing in an acute care hospital. Alternative care services include homemaker assistance, home health aide, respite care, adult day care, adult foster care, and personal care. This is a mandated service in Minnesota. |
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) – Home visits to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome victims for support and education. Facilitation of support group and community education.
Tobacco-Free Communities For Children (TFCC) Grant – The purpose of the TFCC Grant Program is to reduce the number of Minnesota children who use tobacco by (1) providing support and technical assistance to local communities to implement community strategies to prevent children and youths from using tobacco products and (2) providing public information and education to counteract pro-tobacco messages currently targeted to children.
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Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) – A supplemental nutrition education program for qualified pregnant, breast-feeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to 5 years of age. Vouchers provided for certain foods. |
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Minnesota Department of Health
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