From the Office of the Borough Nurse
Available services include health screenings such as pap and breast cancer clinics, held twice a year, vision or ocular pathology testing, and well-care clinics for babies and children up to the age of six. The Borough Nurse is in charge of:
Reportable Diseases
- Investigations
- Case surveillance & follow-up
Adult Immunizations
- Flu
- Pneumonia
- Hepatitis B immunization
- Lyme Disease immunization
- Tetanus immunization
- Diphtheria immunization
Childhood Immunizations & Tuberculosis Control
- Mantoux tests
- Case management
- Referral & State notification
Sexually Transmitted Disease
- Referral & State notification
Maternal and Child Health Services
- Newborn through Kindergarten physical exams
- Infant and Pre-school Immunization
- Safety education for infants
- Annual auditing of all preschools and kindergartens
- Childhood Lead Poisoning
- risk assessments
- screenings
- investigations
- Dental Screenings
- Vision & Hearing Screenings
- Research & referral
- Safety Town for preschoolers
Improved Pregnancy Outcome
- Prenatal and postpartum
- Education
- Referral to clinic, etc.
- WIC assessment, referral
Adolescent Immunization & Education
- Hepatitis B
- Measles, Mumps, & Rubella Booster
- Tetanus
- Varicella
- Diphtheria
- Meningitis
Adult Health Services
- Cancer Screenings:
- male cancer
- female cancer
- skin cancer
- colo-rectal cancer
- Diabetes:
- risk assessment
- Blood screening for glucose
- education
- Cardiovascular Disease:
- risk factor assessments
- screenings
- Blood screening for cholesterol
- Weekly blood pressure screenings
- Stroke Prevention clinic
- Adult Screenings:
- thyroid
- hearing
- vision
- dental
- assessments and referrals
- urine testing
- testing for anemia
Older Adult Health Services
- Blood pressure screenings
- Blood-borne Pathogen Training/Immunization
- Respiratory Protection program
- Special "activity" for Seniors program
- Flu/pneumococcal/tetanus immunizations
- Public health nurse home visits
- Public Health Office visits