Oct 10, 2019 | News and Events
Release Issued by the Northern Illinois Rockford Region Health Department PIOs The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state and local health departments, and other clinical and public health partners are...
Oct 9, 2019 | News and Events
4 As work continues on the new Will County Health Department building, we are offering you the chance to go to our “on-site camera” whenever you wish, and watch the progress live. This new building will be on the same campus as the old one, along Neal...
Oct 2, 2019 | News and Events
$350,000 in grants to 14 organizations across Illinois, including over $26,000 in grants to Will County SPRINGFIELD – In an effort to improve the health of women of reproductive age, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Office of Women’s Health and...
Sep 25, 2019 | News and Events
In 2017, only 50% of Illinois adolescents, aged 12-21, received a yearly well-care visit as compared to over 75% of children aged 3-6. This is unfortunate because while adolescence is generally characterized as a time of good health, it also is a time when mental...
Sep 24, 2019 | News and Events
Dennis Dooley and his team at Elite Ambulance in Mokena had an idea. How about bringing their grills to the Will County Health Department’s main building in Joliet for a picnic to benefit WCHD’s Micro Pantry? And on Friday, September 20th, over 300 donated Micro...
Sep 23, 2019 | News and Events
The staff at the Will County Health Department (WCHD) and Community Health Center (CHC) would like to welcome Dr. Anusha Khapekar as the CHC’s new pediatrician. And as it turns out, her journey to becoming a pediatrician had its major moments during her undergrad...
