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WHAT WE DO AT A GLANCE


Health Education / Promotion:  

  • Blood Pressure Screenings
  • Cholesterol Screenings
  • Heart Health Event
  • Breast Cancer Awareness month (October)
  • Nutrition Education
  • "The Flu & You" read-a-thons
  • "Lyme & Rhyme" read-a-thons
  • The Walking Project  

Major Focus of Work:

  • Approve Septic systems:   new & repairs,  B100(a) testing for Additions

  • Well Sitings (Inc. Water quality issues)

  • Review of subdivision plans for Subsurface Sewage Disposal (septic)

  • Liaison for DEP  (Dept. of Environmental Protection)

  • Complaints:  Housing, Tenant/Landlord, neighborhood issues, garbage, odors, insects (i.e.: bedbugs)

  • To provide detailed property information to the general public, especially as pertains to transfers of ownership.

  • Clinics:  Seasonal Influenza and H1N1 (as needed)

  • "Close Encounters":  Bats, Birds, Rabid Things vs. People

  • Maintain Homeland Security & Emergency Management Authority Requirements

Ongoing Activities:

  • Lyme disease task force

  • Mosquito surveillance

  • Water testing: Seasonal Bathing Water (swimming areas)

  • Evaluation of potable water tests

  • Emergency Preparedness / Community Readiness

  • Reportable Illness follow-up by our Public Health Nurse

  • Travel Vaccinations:  In conjunction with the NM NVA

  • Representative for the Mayor: Housatonic Resources Recovery Agency (HRRA) & Recycling Committee meetings

  • New Development Services Team

We Inspect:

  • Restaurants, seasonal food vendors, temporary events

  • Day Care Centers

  • Pools

  • Nail Salons

  • Tattoo Parlors

  • "Ability Beyond Disability" residential sites

  • Lead Remediation contractor referrals

Annual Events:

Quick Click Links

Lower your Cholesterol

BLAST Tick-Borne Disease Out of New Milford

Rabies Clinic

Restaurant Scores

Food Permits

Flu Clinics

Food Recalls

Deer Tick Testing for Lyme Disease

Calendar of Events

New Milford VNA 

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Health Forum

The mission of the New Milford Department of Health is to prevent disease, maintain a healthy environment and promote community health for the citizens of the Town of New Milford.  We are working to meet this goal by providing a wide range of programs and services including enforcement of the Connecticut Public Health Code and local ordinances.  We are your local department of health and are available to help serve your public health needs.  Please contact us if you have any questions.

The Department of Health is made up of a team of trained health professionals and competent support staff.  In cooperation with the Mayor and the Town Council, the New Milford Health Department carries out it’s mission to promote public health in the community.

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