BELMONT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS (PHEP)
The work of the Public Health Infrastructure (PHI) program is to strengthen the Belmont County community’s ability to prepare and respond to public health emergencies. We do this by working with other agencies, developing and practicing plans of action, monitoring and responding to unusual occurrences of diseases, training staff to be prepared to take action to protect the health and safety of the residents of Belmont County and providing information on how to prepare and respond to an emergency.
PROGRAM
SERVICES
Public health emergency preparedness information is provided to the public at our office, through the website, and upon request.
WHO IS THE PROGRAM FOR?
The PHI program works internally with all the programs of the Belmont County Health Department, with other public health agencies, hospitals, emergency management agencies, private health care providers, fire departments, law enforcement, and other community agencies.
WHAT IF THERE IS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY?
First keep calm and turn on
your TV or radio for updates and emergency information that will be provided as
quickly as possible. The Belmont
County Health Department will be in contact with the Belmont
County EOC and the Ohio Department of Health to obtain supplies from the
Strategic National Stockpile (The Strategic National Stockpile is a
federally-maintained cache of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies that
can be deployed to any location in the nation in response to a terrorist attack
or other public health emergency).
When Belmont County receives our supply, information will be made available to
rapidly get the assets to the affected public.
LOCATION
68501 Bannock Road
St. Clairsville, Ohio 43950
Hours
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Phone (740) 695-1202 Fax (740) 695-8890 Emergency Pager (740) 353-1731
