Hancock County Health Department established in 1925. The Hancock County Health Department provides nursing, environmental, and vital statistics services.
Some of the Public Health nursing services that are provided are immunizations, school nursing, community education, BCMH (Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps), and communicable disease follow up. Several of the environmental services provided are food servicing, vending, public swimming pools, solid waste, and animal bites. The vital statistics department files birth and death certificates as well as issues burial permits.
Our Mission - From medical and nursing services to active environmental health protection, your local health department is ready to assist all citizens in rural Hancock County on becoming and staying healthy. Therefore, it shall be the health departments' aim to continue to strive to provide the highest quality of health care services that are practical and to protect the community's environmental well-being.
