The Oswego County Health Department offers a variety of services to all residents of Oswego County, including preventive health services, certified home health care, long-term home health care, certified hospice, and a maternal and child health program.
Healthy Life
The Oswego County Legislature recognized Tuesday, Oct. 15, as National White Cane Safety Day to promote awareness, education and advocacy for issues that affect individuals with a vision impairment that requires them to carry a white cane. Members of the Oswego County Vision Network and ARISE were at hand to receive the proclamation.
The Oswego County Health Department offers a variety of services to all residents of Oswego County, including preventive health services, certified home health care, long-term home health care, certified hospice, and a maternal and child health program.
Until Sept. 1, one phone call to Oswego County Opportunities (OCO) Transportation Services provided Medicaid recipients throughout Oswego County with safe, reliable transportation to and from medical appointments both within and outside Oswego County.
The Oswego County Health Department offers a variety of services to all residents of Oswego County, including preventive health services, certified home health care, long-term home health care, certified hospice, and a maternal and child health program.
When St. Francis Commons Assisted Living Residence opens, not only will Oswego County be introduced to the first New York State licensed assisted living program, its new Memory Care program will also be a unique service offered to the community.
Certified Nurse Midwife, Lindsay Lachant, has joined the professional staff at Oswego County OB-GYN, P.C. and the medical staff at Oswego Hospital.
Head Start families attended a workshop in January that taught them what to do when their children get sick. Throughout the night families learned how to use the book `What to do When Their Child Gets Sick`. This book is a valuable tool that helps parents decide if they can care for their child at home, if they should call their doctor or go to the emergency room. Families also learned how to properly measure medicine and take temperatures.
St. Francis Commons Assisted Living Residence in Oswego recently celebrated the one year anniversary of a very unique program serving the community.
