The NEST Partnership would like to welcome Lora Miller as the new community health nurse. Lora will be working with the prenatal case management program, helping expectant mom’s with their pregnancy and preparing for the baby. What brought you to public health? I love the teaching aspect of Nursing and…
Author: Kathryn Wall, Health Department, for SGFNN
The area’s health care partners are taking a collaborative approach in communicating care options available to our community. For those who aren’t feeling well, contacting your primary care physician can be an option. If you can’t get in to see your doctor, or don’t have one, Greene County has several…
Community leaders from across many sectors in Springfield came together in November to begin the process of a mental health needs assessment for our community. The assessment will focus on the goals of improving the system of mental health and substance abuse delivery, reducing stigma and developing collaborative paths forward…
The Gallup organization has ranked Springfield 25th on its list of Communities with the Highest Rates of Regular Exercise. The report examines exercise in Americans across the U.S. and ranks the cities based on response and percentage of those who have exercised for 30 minutes or more a day, three or…
As of May 30, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department will be moving immunization services from Westside Public Health Center in preparation for exciting new services to come. Westside, located at 660 S. Scenic, has been the immunization center for the Health Department for 13 years. Back then, immunizations could be…
You may be getting—or may have already gotten—a knock at your door and an offer for a blood pressure reading. Here’s why. The Community Health Advocate program was launched by the Springfield-Greene County Health Department in 2014 in the Weller neighborhood and has since expanded to include all of Zone…