All personal care clients must be Medicaid eligible or current Medicaid recipients. A pre-admission home assessment must first be completed by a public health nurse and a social worker. The services may be any number of hours per day or days per week, as requested. Health education programs provided by the Hampton Health Department are designed to help children, young adults, men and women to achieve healthy lifestyles. Trained educators and speakers are available for group presentations.
Speakers provide information covering a wide range of topics.
Your Invitation to Health promotes healthy life styles to reduce the risk of chronic heart disease and strokes at Hampton work sites. Employees receive cholesterol and blood pressure screenings, counseling and referral services, health risk appraisals, and nutrition education funded through the Virginia Cardiovascular Risk Reduction program. This program also offers weight management and smoking cessation programs. Every Woman's Life Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides clinical breast examination, pap tests, and mammograms at no charge to women over 50. Breast self-examination classes and instructor training is also available.