Health Services

Clinical Services at Linn County Public Health provides a wide variety of health services to the public. These services are separated into three functions: Clinical Services, Communicable Disease Investigations and Chronic Disease Management.

Below is a short description of the services provided by the Clinical Services team.

Clinical Services

• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections
• HIV antibody testing and counseling
• Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV
• Child and adult immunizations
• International travel immunizations, prescriptions and travel advice
• Change of status exams for green card applications for immigrants and refugees
• Plus much more

Communicable Disease

• Provides medical case management for families and close contacts of persons with active tuberculosis
• Evaluates reported communicable diseases to determine the risk to the public and to minimize the spread of the disease
• Notifies persons suspected to be in contact with reportable communicable diseases
• Investigates food-borne and water-borne illness complaints received by the department

Chronic Disease Management

• Manages the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program for Linn County (Iowa Care For Yourself Program)

Page last reviewed: November 28, 2018

Page last updated: November 28, 2018