Mission

To protect and promote the health of all residents and visitors in Suwannee County.

Vision

A healthier future for the people of Florida.

Values

Excellence: We achieve and maintain quality results and outcomes through continuous performance improvement and learning.

Commitment to Service: We dedicate ourselves to provide services unconditionally and without partiality.

Accountability: We take full responsibility for our behavior and performance.

Empowerment: We create a culture that encourages people to exercise their judgment and initiative in pursuit of organizational goals.

Integrity: Our guide for actions -- which incorporates our commitment to honesty, fairness, loyalty and trustworthiness -- is in the best interests of our customers and employees.

Respect: We recognize and honor the contributions of one another in our daily activities and create an environment where diversity is appreciated and encouraged.

Teamwork: We encourage active collaboration to solve problems, make decisions, and achieve common goals.

Key Business Functions:

• Identify, diagnose, and conduct surveillance of diseases and health conditions in the state, accumulating health statistics necessary to establish trends.
  
  
• Implement interventions that prevent or limit the impact or spread of diseases and health conditions.
  
  
• Collect, manage, and analyze vital statistics and other health data to inform and formulate public health policy and planning.
  
  
• Maintain and coordinate preparedness for and responses to public health emergencies in the state.
  
  
• Provide or assure the provision of quality health and related services to identified populations in the state.
  
  
• Regulate environmental activities that have a direct impact on public health in the state.
  
  
• Regulate health practitioners, to the extent authorized by the legislature, as necessary for the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the public.