Help for mothers, babies and the elderly
The Health Department’s Clinical Office operates Children’s Medical Services, a public health program funded by the state and through the federal Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant. The office currently maintains a caseload of 60 patients. CMS provides care coordination and other needed medical/health services for eligible children with special healthcare needs and their families. In 2016, the CMS program paid $10,377 to assist those enrolled in Floyd County with various medical expenses related to the eligible chronic diagnosis.
Through the Georgia Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, administered throughout Northwest Georgia by the GDPH Northwest Health District headquartered in Rome, the Health Department’s Clinical Office partners
with local hospitals to provide newborn hearing screening and follow-up for all babies born in Floyd County who are referred on the initial screen.
The Health Department Clinical Office administers the Georgia Breast and Cervical Cancer Program in Floyd County. BCCP provides access to timely breast-and-cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services throughout the state to Georgia women residents.
Services are available for women with limited annual income, as well as uninsured and underinsured and women who are between the ages of 40-64 for breast cancer and 21-64 for cervical cancer. BCCP services include clinical breast examinations, pelvic examinations, Pap tests, mammograms (if 40-64 years old), diagnostic evaluation, if results are abnormal and referrals to treatment through the Women’s Health Medicaid Program.
The Health Department’s Clinical Office provides children attending day care, kindergarten, rising seventh-graders and students new to the state or transferring from a private school the immunizations required to attend public school. It also provides vision, hearing, dental and nutrition screenings required for children entering a Georgia school for the first time.
About 60 percent of Georgia women with babies receive help through WIC, Women, Infants and Children.
In 2016, approximately 3,000 Floyd County WIC participants cashed 117,464 vouchers with a monetary value of $1,957,599.52, in effect spending this money in the community.
WIC is a United States Department of Agriculture program that provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant and postpartum women as well as infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.
WIC nutritionists promote healthy family habits through individual counseling sessions and group discussion classes. Along with nutrition information, WIC participants receive breastfeeding support, immunization screening and referrals to other community programs.
The Community Care Services Program is located at 101 E. Second Ave. and is operated in Floyd County by the health department and the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission’s Area Agency on Aging. CCSP provides a wide range of support services, such as home delivered meals, adult day health and home delivered services to assist elderly and disabled citizens live safely