• Clinical Services
  Provide health promotion/disease prevention services to men and women of reproductive age including adolescents. Services include examinations, contraceptives visits, sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and treatment, HIV testing, PAP tests, minor gynecological procedures (including colposcopy), preconception counseling, and pregnancy testing.

• Environmental Services
  Inspect all licensed food establishments and assure they are in compliance with the Food Safety Code. Monitor the air and water quality of our community. Regulate the installation of private sewer systems and monitor the clean up of hazardous waste. Investigate all environmental complaints within our community.

• Health Services Center
  Provide comprehensive primary health care to homeless individuals in our community. This is accomplished through community collaboration, case management, and outreach to the homeless population.

• Laboratory Services
  Laboratory Services consists of two subdivisions: Clinical and Environmental Services. Clinical Services involve laboratory tests ordered by health care providers. Environmental Services include testing drinking water suitability, swimming pool analysis, and soft ice cream purity.

• Public Health Nursing Service
  Provide home visits to assess physical, mental, social, and environmental status. This includes adults using home health maintenance, people on tuberculosis medications, and maternal child health clients. Nursing services are also provided to area school systems. Other services include Child Health Clinics, home visits, the Optimal Pregnancy Outcome Program, and North Dakota Health Tracks (a health program for children).

• Public Health Services
  These services include childhood and adult immunizations, a foreign travel clinic, tuberculosis testing and control, and Women's Way (a breast and cervical cancer screening program). Public Health Services also offers nutrition education, health education, agricultural injury tracking, correctional health, and community health assessment.

• Baby Steps
  Baby Steps is a prenatal and early childhood home visitation project for first-time mothers. This 2 1/2 year program, offered to any limited income woman expecting her first baby, assists clients in identifying their strengths and achieving their goals.

History of Fargo Cass Public Health

Starting in 1923 as a Commonwealth Fund Demonstration project, Fargo Cass Public Health has a long and distinguished reputation of providing quality service to the residents of Cass County.

The first health department employed nine people. Fargo was divided into six districts offering prenatal and infant care, school health, disease control and public education. Today public health employs 81 people and is divided into six divisions: Clinical, Environmental, Health Care for the Homeless, Laboratory, Public Health Nursing, and Public Health Services.

During the last 75 years Public Health has been in the forefront of community health concerns. From the polio epidemic of the 1940's to the AIDS epidemic of the 80's and 90's, Public Health has risen to the challenge of providing accurate health information and quality health service to the general population.