Health District

Epidemiology

• Monitors and investigates potential disease outbreaks.
• Mitigates disease outbreaks through guidance on appropriate preventative measures, treatment, and control.

Health Education

• Presents on health topics upon request. 
• Provides healthy lifestyle classes.
• Cooking demos.
• Hosts 2 community coalitions to improve people’s health across McLennan County

Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)

• Provides education to the community on how to prepare for disasters.
• Trains our medical reserve corps volunteers to assist the Health District in responding to large-scale public health emergencies or natural disasters.

Mental Health Access Program

• Provides a directory for anyone searching for a mental health provider

HIV/AIDS & STI Services

• We have an HIV case management program with caring staff and nonjudgmental attitudes who can assist with locating medical homes, medications, housing, and support for persons living with HIV. Anyone living with HIV can call for an appointment to see if they qualify for any of these services.
• We have expert staff in our STI Clinic that have been caring for people a long time. The clinic offers testing, treatment and/or prescriptions for sexually transmitted infections for a low sliding scale. Never let the lack of money be the reason you don’t come for a checkup. Most of our tests are either urine or blood tests.
• Our HIV Prevention program works to provide free HIV testing in McLennan and surrounding counties. Outreach and testing are given to individuals and groups that are not able to come to the STI clinic. This program offers free HIV testing in a variety of locations. We strive to offer these outreach services throughout our communities.
• Provide free condoms at the health district and at numerous locations. To see a full list of locations where free condoms are offered, go to HIV/AIDS Services & STI Clinic and click on the “Free Condoms Available” section.
• Pregnancy testing.

Immunizations Clinic

• The Immunizations Clinic offers recommended vaccines for children and adults.
• Travel vaccines such as yellow fever and typhoid are available from our Immunization Clinic with the most reasonable fees in the state.
• The Immunization Clinic only has access to shot records for clients we have vaccinated, or if the client is registered and consented in ImmTrac2 (The Texas Immunizations Registry).
• The Immunization Clinic can provide mobile vaccination clinic upon request for a variety of immunizations.
• Our COVID-19 program offers vaccinations at home through our homebound program by appointment.

Tuberculosis Prevention & Care Clinic

• Comprehensive evaluation and treatment of clients suspected of, or confirmed to have TB disease. Evaluation and treatment include symptoms assessment, blood work, chest x-ray imaging, specimen collection, and directly observed therapy (DOT)
• Investigation of contacts to persons identified with TB, screening of high-risk individuals, and treatment for person identified with latent TB infection (LTBI). The decision to treat LTBI is determined by our local health authority based on information collected during the evaluation process.
• Fees for clinical services provided for LTBI are based on a sliding scale of household income. Medications for TB and LTBI are provided by the Department of State Health Service pharmacy at no charge to the client.
• Anyone in need of clinical services for tuberculosis and those referred through the electronic disease notification system will be seen regardless of ability to pay.
• In-person TB education is available by contacting our office. Topics may include reporting protocols, screening and evaluation, basic TB information and specialized TB practices.
• Low cost Quantitative N95 fit testing for the community.