Mission Statement

The Summit County Public Health Department serves to protect human health through leadership and community partnership by:

• Assessing health status and making continuous proactive improvement to assure that health needs are met in the most effective and efficient way;
• Creatively enhancing knowledge and cultivating behavior which contributes to a healthy community;
• Implementing regulations in a professional and responsible way;
• Preventing the spread of communicable disease and responding to all hazards.