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Clinic Hours
8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday
Tuesdays open at 9:30 a.m.
Monday evening open until 8 p.m.
(TB skin tests are not administered on Thursdays)
Office Hours
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday
Closed from noon to 1 p.m.
CARE AND COMfoRT IN A NEW COUNTRY
Dafne Vargas-Hernandez wanted to ensure that she found good health care for her son, Andres, who was only 3 months old when her family moved to Lawrence from Costa Rica.
 After calling multiple health clinics, she found out how the Health Department could help. She brought Andres to the Health Department for immunizations, well child screenings, WIC and was assisted with finding a family doctor.
Even though Andres was at a healthy weight based on Costa Rican standards, the American weight charts showed him at the low end of the scale.
“I always asked lots of questions and the (Health Department staff) had very appropriate and wise answers regarding his nutrition and development,” she said.
Dafne’s experiences with health care in Costa Rica influenced her expectations of health care workers in the United States.
“Back home, the pediatrician does everything,” she said.
When she came to the Health Department, however, Dafne found that the clinic nurses and WIC nutritionists treated her son with the same care and attention that she had experienced in her homeland.
“You feel that it is not only a service that they are providing,” she said, “but that they are interested in the development of the child.”
THE TAYLORS
Paul and Barbara Taylor have lived and worked in Lawrence for nearly 30 years, raising their four children, now building families of their own. From immunizations to pool inspections – directly or indirectly – the Taylors have benefited from Health Department services.
These services include programs that:
• Monitor, identify and address health problems
• Diagnosis and investigate health problems and hazards
• Safeguard public health laws and regulations
• Develop plans and policies to protect health
“We have benefited from the Health Department through the years – sometimes we utilized it purposely, other times we used it and didn’t even know it was benefiting our family’s health,” Barb Taylor said.
The Taylors are just one example of the many of Lawrence and Douglas County residents who have come to rely on the Health Department’s presence.
Paul Taylor, a pastor at a local church and chaplain with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical, came to the Health Department for his tetanus shot. The Taylor children, Sarah, David, Jeni and Ben, all received their childhood immunizations at the Health Department as well.
Barb and daughter Jeni, attended the Health Department’s unique family-based sexuality education course, “Kids Need to Know.”
Now married and with a family of her own, Jeni’s daughters, Anya, 3, and Charis, 6, have benefited from the Health Department’s Child Care Licensing program, which seeks to ensure the safety of children in day care. Both girls attended a local preschool, one of more than 300 facilities inspected by child care licensing surveyors each year.
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