Programs & Services
Last updated: September 19, 2023
For additional information about programs and services offered by Peterborough Public Health please contact us at 705-743-1000 or info@peterboroughpublichealth.ca
COVID-19 Related Services
Peterborough Public Health Offers:
- COVID-19 vaccine administration at vaccine clinics
- COVID-19 vaccine order and pick-up for healthcare partners
- Case and Contact management for individuals living or working in high-risk settings
- COVID-19 prevention information
- COVID-19 case and status reporting
Partner Organizations Offer:
- COVID-19 symptom assessment and PCR testing
- COVID-19 rapid antigen test kit distribution
Other Public Health Programing
ONGOING:
- Community Dental Clinic
- Dental Screening in Schools
- Early Warning and Opioid Overdose Surveillance
- Food Handler Training Classes: Have resumed in secondary schools. Full programming expected to return in April 2022
- Food For Kids Peterborough and County program support
- Food Programs
- Food Safety Program
- Health Hazards Prevention and Control (prioritization of urgent health hazards)
- Healthy Babies Healthy Children – home visits (Most services are being provided via telephone or videoconference)
- Infant Toddler Development program – home visits (Most services are being provided via telephone or videoconference)
- Naloxone Distribution
- Outbreak Investigations
- Rabies Prevention and Control Program
- Requests for Immunization Records (access online available here)
- Routine Immunization Clinic
- Routine Immunization Orders and Pick-up: Available 2 days a week
- Routine Inspection of Facilities
- Safe Water Program
- School-based Immunizations
- Catch-up for grades 8-12, routine to commence for grade 7-8 in the Fall
- Sexual Health Clinic Services: symptomatic testing is available
- Sewage Disposal Program
- Surveillance and follow-up for diseases of public health significance
- Tobacco Enforcement
- Work with community partners including meetings and community work
- Some work has resumed. Reach out to contacts for up to date information.
SUSPENDED:
- In-person Prenatal Classes (online prenatal modules continue to be available)
- Family HEALTHline
- Vision Screening in schools
- Tobacco Cessation Support