About
Lorain County Public Health (LCPH) is a local public health agency that serves Lorain County, Ohio. We are led by our own board appointed by local mayors, city managers, and township trustees. Key funding sources for LCPH include 43% from grants, 31% from a local levy, and 21% from fees, and 5% miscellaneous. We are responsible for all cities, townships, and villages in Lorain County except the City of Vermilion, which receives services from the Erie County Health Department.
Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission:
To serve and support a healthy community
Vision:
Improving today for a healthier tomorrow
Values:
- Making data-driven decisions
- Continuously improving
- Respecting everyone
- Encouraging creativity
- Being compassionate
- Embracing diversity
- Working together
Strategic Plan
The LCPH Strategic Plan is a guide we use to develop strategies, make decisions, and allocate resources. Our 2023-2025 strategic priorities are:
- Enhance Performance
- Support the Workforce
- Exceed Customer Service
- Ensure Financial Sustainability
Programs and Services
Administrative Services
- Accounts, billing, and financial management
- Birth and death certificates
- General public information
- Grants management
- Human resources
- Information technology and IT systems management
- Public health accreditation
Community Health
- Adult and child vaccines
- Adult Protective Services consultations
- Children Services consultations
- Children with Medical Handicaps (CMH) Program
- Cribs for Kids safe sleep program
- Lead testing for children
- Opioid overdose prevention and Naloxone
- Plan of Safe Care coordination
- Premature babies' clinic
- Prescription assistance
- School health
- Sickle cell disease (SCD) clinic
- Travel health & vaccines
Emergency Preparedness and Epidemiology
- Communicable disease prevention and outbreak investigation
- Evaluation, research, and quality improvement
- Assess and monitor population health through statistical publications
- Build and maintain local emergency preparedness plans
- Institutional health and safety (jails, prisons, detention centers)
Environmental Health
- Animal bites and rabies control
- Beach water quality sampling
- Body art (tattoo and body piercing)
- Campgrounds
- Commercial and semi-public sewage
- Food safety
- Household sewage
- Lead poisoning prevention
- Mosquito control and surveillance
- Nuisances
- Private water systems
- School/institution environmental safety
- SmokeFree Ohio
- Solid and hazardous waste
- Swimming pools and spas
- Tick surveillance
Population Health
- Built environment improvements
- Car seat program
- Chronic disease prevention
- Coalition building
- Common VIEW
- Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
- Diabetes prevention
- Food systems planning
- Health communications
- Healthy eating
- Keystone Empowers You
- Live Healthy Lorain
- Live Healthy Oberlin
- Maternal and child health
- Media relations
- North Ridgeville Heart & Sole
- Safe Communities Coalition
- Safe Routes to School
- School health
- Self-monitoring of blood pressure
- Tobacco cessation and prevention
- United We Sweat
WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
- Breastfeeding education and support
- Nutrition education
- OhioHealth Mothers' Milk Bank breast milk drop site
- Participation in WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
- Referrals to prenatal and pediatric healthcare
- Referrals to maternal and child health and human services programs
- Supplemental nutritious foods and iron-fortified infant formulas
Policies
- LCPH Public Records Request Policy
- LCPH Privacy Policy and Procedures
- LCPH Notice of Privacy Practices
- Social Media Terms and Conditions for Users
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History
Operations and Maintenance (O&M) permits
Your household sewage and the waters they impact.
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Thanksgiving - Office Closed
Lorain County Public Health will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28 and Friday, Nov. 29.
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