Family Preparedness
Prepare
Use the "Four Steps to Safety" guide to improve your family's preparedness plan.
Protect
Determine the best scape routes out of your home and find the safest spot within your home. An interior room or closet with no windows is your best safe spot.
Prepare
Keep you and your family safer and insist everyone learn to swim well. Prepare how you would respond to an emergency and get training in basic water rescue skills, first aid and CPR. Have rescue equipment and a phone by the pool.
Protect
Supervise and never take your eyes off children in and around water. Use barriers such as fences, self-closing/ self-latching gates and secured doors with alarms. This can prevent young children from wandering into the pool. Also check for broken or missing drain covers.
In 2010 Collier County was ranked the #1 healthiest county in the state of Florida to live by a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation.
Collier had the lowest combined morbidity and mortality rates out of all the 67 counties throughout the State.
Here is a video explaining why Collier County ranks #1 in Florida to be the healthiest county in the state Video.
If you would like additional information from the study, please see this Report and the Final Work Group Report.
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- Collier County Health Department
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