Preventive Health Services
-Assure accessible quality preventive health services to the community to reduce illness, injury, death and disability.

Understanding
-Our staff will understand the population we serve and the community will understand our role.

Behaviors
-Promote individual behaviors that positively impact health.

Linkages
-Improve relations with other community groups to assure continuity of services.

Improvement
-To improve our funding base to provide flexibility to meet community needs and improve necessary infrastructure.

Crisis Management
-Improve our capability to respond to public health emergencies and threats.

Health Education and Health Promotion
-Be the resource in the community that has, and shares, the overall vision for the health of the community.
-Provide appropriate health education programs within all
communities.

Environment
-Provide environmental expertise in the community to improve environmental sanitation and overall health.

Assessment
-Provide leadership in community needs assessment to determine the community health, environmental health, and health care needs of the Commonwealth.

Laws
-Improve, strengthen, and clarify public health law.
-Enforce public health laws of the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions with fairness, objectivity, and consistency.

Training
-Provide training for staff to provide the highest quality services possible.

Home Services
-Reduce unnecessary hospitalization and institutionalization of vulnerable populations through home health care services.