Elyria Health District

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FREE Blood Pressure Screenings! Click here for details.

UPDATE! New Pediatric Immunization Clinic hours - Click here for details.

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The Weight of the Nation: HBO will be airing a 2 part series on the obesity epidemic in America on May 14 & 15. The documentary will take a look at the severity of the issue, the underlying causes and what steps need to be taken to reverse the problem. To make the series available to as many persons as possible HBO is planning to show this program during one of it's "free preview" timeframes. Please contact your cable or satellite operator to make sure it will be available to you.

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May is National Asthma Awareness Month: Click Here for information from the American Lung Association

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Get the lead out!

Through a Lorain County consortium, a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Lead Based Paint Hazard Control Grant has made funding available to provide help to income-qualified homeowners. Landords are also eligible to receive a loan that will be 100% forgiven over a five year period if the landlord abides with the terms of the loan and their tenants are income qualified. Renters may apply on behalf of their landlord to receive assistance.

For more information on lead poisoning please click on our Environmental page

For more information on applying for this lead grant, contact the City of Elyria Community Development Department at 440-326-1541.

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ECHD website to include various widgets !!!

In order to provide current information from official sources the ECHD website now includes several widgets from the CDC, food safety.gov, USEPA and FEMA. Initially widgets can be found on our food safety, emergency preparedness, recycling, health promotion and child health pages as well as here on the hot topics section. The widgets are constantly updated by the host agency eliminating the need for some of the links from our website to outside sources.

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Inspections of Food Service Facilities, Public Pools/Spas and Tattoo Operations to be available online:

In an effort to provide information to the community, beginning October 1, 2010 we began posting the inspection forms of our food services, public pools/spas and tattoo operations. The inspection results are posted at www.ohioinspections.org on a regular basis. At this time we will not be posting inspections conducted before Oct 1, 2010. Information on how to interpret an inspection report is posted on the food safety page.

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Cases of Measles on uprise: Updated 4/20/2012

The CDC has issued a health advisory as since Jan 1, 2011 there have been 156 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. This is the highest number of cases since 1996. A story on this topic ran yesterday in the Chronicle indicating that Measles are now more prevalent today than in the past 15 years. The majority of the cases are a result of an un-vaccinated person being exposed while traveling abroad. Click here for more information on measles and the outbreak.

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TEXT4BABY

The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition announces the creation of text4baby, a free mobile information service for pregnant women and new moms. Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY to 511411 (or BEBE for Spanish) receive 3 free text messages each week timed to their due date or baby's date of birth. The messages are on various topics such as: immunization, nutrition, mental health, oral health, safe sleep and prevention of birth defects. The messages can also help connect women to prenatal and infant care services. Click here for more information.

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NEW! The Elyria City Health District has created a short film in order to promote public health and to show the community of Elyria what types of services the health district has to offer. Click the following link to view this film:

www.youtube.com/watch

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The Elyria City Health District exists to promote the optimum health of the citizens of Elyria.

A range of services is provided by our staff, which includes a physician, public health nurses, registered dietitian, registered dental hygienist, outreach workers, and registered sanitarians.

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