South Central Public Health District (bellevue)

South Central Public Health District (bellevue)

• South Central Public Health District
• Mission: Prevent Disease, Promote Healthy Lifestyles, Protect and Prepare the public against health threats
• Vision: Healthy and Prepared People in Our Communities
• Values: Accountability, Integrity, Client Focused, Professionalism, Collaborative, Health and Excellence
• Started in 1928 fighting an infectious meningitis epidemic with three public health nurses and a sanitary inspector
• Employs nearly 100 professionally trained nurses today
• Provides services to eight counties of south central Idaho as part of a statewide system of seven public health districts
• Governed by an eight member Board of Health with a representative from each county; open to the public on the fourth Wednesday monthly