Nationwide initiative supporting state, tribal, local and territorial efforts by health departments battling COVID-19. Latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic, including national data and useful health tips on preventing infection.

Assisting individuals and employees negatively impacted by COVID-19 find immediate job openings and connecting them to unemployment benefits. Virtual Job Fairs are open to any hiring employer to set up an employer booth and schedule a virtual job fair.

The Department is urging all mortgage services in Illinois to defer mortgage payments for those negatively impacted by COVID-19. Provides information on financial resources and relief available to those impacted negatively by COVID-19.

Coordinates and promotes various statewide programs and initiatives to combat and control AIDS/HIV. Website maintains links to various resources available statewide. Programs include the Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and the Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP).

Provides Certified Application Counselor to help you submit your application for Medicaid or Marketplace Insurance and with applications for SNAP, Medicare Savings, Extra Help, and the Benefit Access Program.​ Rides to Medical Appointments Family Connections - Offers referrals for pediatricians, dentists, and counselors. Also offers affordable options for school physicals and required childhood immunizations.​ ​Talk to a nurse about: - Health conditions and medications​ - Costly prescriptions​ - COVID-19 and the coronavirus vaccines - Doctors, dentists, and counselors that accept your health insurance​ - Understanding your health insurance and your insurance choices​ - Medicare options​ - Finding healthcare when you have no insurance and no money​ - Non-judgmental help for addiction and mental health services​ - Solutions for stress Answers questions to residents on how to self navigate the AllVax portal. Also answers general questions about COVID-19 and the vaccine.

Responsible for the reporting, investigation, and control of communicable disease and sexually transmitted disease. Tuberculosis (TB) screening available.

Provides up-to-date pandemic or virus information.

Helps to assure the health of McHenry County through surveillance, investigation, prevention, and reporting of infectious diseases. Services: - Immunization (adult and infant/ children). - Tuberculosis testing and treatment. - STD testing and treatment.

Protects the community through disease surveillance, outbreak detection and investigation, the implementation of disease control and prevention measures, and the mandated reporting to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Educational and referral services are available to enhance community awareness and knowledge of signs, symptoms, treatment, and available resources for infectious diseases.

Protects the citizens from contracting and transmitting infectious disease.

Identifies, investigates, and attempts to control disease outbreaks in the community. CUPHD Communicable Disease Investigator works with the state health department and local health care providers. Investigators conduct a confidential interview with persons diagnosed with an infectious disease that could lead to an outbreak. Interviews help confirm to the diagnosis, determine the source of infection, and limit the spread of the disease. Also offers bed bug identification. Individuals who are unsure if what they are seeing is a bed bug, may bring a bug in for identification.

Provides for the prompt investigation of communicable diseases (food-borne illness, sexually transmitted disease). This investigation includes surveillance of unusual clusters of disease which may indicate a public health hazard.

Accepts reports of communicable diseases, including possible food-borne illness. The Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Program provides TB skin tests and facilitates diagnostic testing, medical consultation, and treatment.

Services provided: - Communicable disease program. - Communicable disease reporting and follow-up. - Immunizations. - Foreign travel. - STD/STI screening, reporting, treatment, and follow-up. - Tuberculosis screening, treatment, and follow-up. - HIV counseling, testing, and referral. - Chronic disease program. - Pregnancy testing. - Hypertension screening. - Cholesterol screening. - Diabetes screening. - Lead poisoning screening. - Prostate cancer screening. - Measels/Mumps/Rubella screening. - Varicella (chickenpox) screening. - Hepatitis B screening. - Complete blood count (CBC). - Basic metabolic panel (BMP). - Fasting comprehensive metabolic panel. - Liver panel. - Vitamin D screening.

Investigates communicable disease cases and reports to the Illinois Department of Public Health and to the Centers for Disease Control. Educational materials on any communicable disease are available to county residents.

Investigation and reporting of communicable diseases per Illinois Dept. of Public Health. Includes STD and HIV/AIDS, as well as referral for testing and treatment.

Investigates and reports instances of certain communicable diseases.

Monitors for and notifies of conditions and diseases that could impact the public health. Provides guidance and education to the community on how to prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases. Works with healthcare providers, schools, long-term care facilities, and other partners to monitor for communicable diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases. Programs: - Communicable disease. - STI prevention and control. - HIV case managment with Illinois HIV Care Connect. Communicable Disease: - Receives disease reports for communicable diseases and conducts contact investigations. STI Prevention and Control: - Receives disease reports for sexually transmitted infections (STIs/STDs) and conducts contact investigations. - Provides prevention education and resources to the community. - Assists impacted individuals with notification of partners. - STI counselor provides understanding about infection and links to treatment. HIV Case Management with Illinois HIV Care Connect: - Provides case management and supportive services to those living with HIV. Services for the Public: - Free condoms. - Testing and treatment for HIV and STIs (HIV Care Connect - medical case management, testing and treatment, assistance informing partners and getting them in treatment, PrEP). - Guidance and resources on: preventing communicable disease, handwashing, immunizations/vaccination, when and how to isolate or quarantine when needed, what to do if a bat is found in house or individual is bitten by a wild animal. - Preventing STIs/STDs (request a sexual health presentation, screening and treatment). - Common communicable diseases including vaccine preventable diseases (request a presentation on a current disease). - Staying healthy when traveling.

Environmental health, including: - Private sewage disposal & water supply programs. - Food safety. - Food service sanitation program. - Vector control.

Disease Prevention services include: - Immunizations. - STI/HIV Programs. - Tuberculosis Screening. - RSV/Influenza (Flu)/Pneumonia vaccine.

Reports, investigates, and works to control communicable disease and sexually transmitted disease.

Environmental health, including: - Private sewage disposal & water supply programs. - Food safety. - Food service sanitation program. - Vector control.

Protect the citizens of Marion County from contracting and transmitting infectious disease. MCHD receives reports of communicable diseases from physicians, laboratories, health care practitioners, schools and daycare personnel as the disease occurs.

Promotes optimal health among county residents by preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases. The health department conducts investigations for those diseases reportable to the Illinois Department of Public Health including, but not limited to: Hepatitis A, B, and C. Meningitis, Salmonella, Shigella, Giardia, and Pertussis (whooping cough).

The program is offered to promote optimal health among Jefferson County residents by working to control the spread of communicable diseases. Staff conducts surveillance and investigation of reportable communicable diseases, including foodborne and waterborne illnesses.