Jefferson County Public Health Service

Jefferson County Public Health Service Main Contact: 315-786-3700 Prevent Services: 315-786-3730 Please visit our website www.jcphs.org for more information.

Empowering people to prevent illness, promote resiliency, and protect the well-being of Jefferson County residents and visitors. Jefferson County Public Health Service (JCPHS) offers preventive health programs that provide a broad range of services for county residents which include: communicable disease case investigation for reportable diseases, community screenings & education along with other

services for health and human service agencies, schools, businesses and residents.
• Travel health services
• Rabies Control
• Vector Control
• Emergency Preparedness
• Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
• Immunization Clinic every Wednesday 12:30-3:30; STD Clinic every Tuesday 12:30-3:30. Call 315-786-3730 to schedule an appointment.
• Child Find Program
• Children with Special Health Care Needs
• Emergency Medical Services
• Medical Examiner Program

JCPHS also has home healthcare services. Home health care provides in-home services such as nursing, home health aides, physical therapy, occupational therapy, medical social worker, registered dietitian and case management. DISCLAIMER:
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JCPHS does not agree with or endorse every comment that individuals post on our pages. Our goal is to share ideas and information with as many individuals as possible and our policy is to accept the majority of comments made to our profile. Therefore, a comment will be deleted if it contains:
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• Hate speech
• Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
• Nudity in profile pictures
• Defamation to a person or people
• Name calling and/or personal attacks
• Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product
• Comments that infringe on copyrights
• Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile
• Links to inappropriate external sites
• Other comments that the JCPHS deems inappropriate. All links posted as comments on JCPHS posts will be reviewed and may be deleted. Repeated violations of the JCPHS comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the JCPHS page. We understand that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our moderation capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away, and we are trusting in the maturity of our community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech or respond politely. Please contact JCPHS at 315-786-3730 if you have any questions.

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Stay safe & : ready.gov/winter-ready

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Radon can build up in the air in any home or building whether it has a basement, is sealed or drafty, or is new or old. We have a limited supply of radon test kits to give away to county residents at no cost. Anyone interested may stop by our office at 531 Meade Street in Watertown Monday - Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm.

Address

531 Meade Street
Watertown, NY
13601

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+13157863730

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