Lincoln County Health Department

Lincoln County Health Department receives state funding to provide the services of a Child Care Health Consultant.  These services are offered to all licensed and prospective childcare providers in Lincoln County.  Additionally, parents are welcome to call and ask about availability of childcare in Lincoln County or other questions that they might have concerning childcare.

Our purpose is to help ensure the health and safety of children in childcare.

Families and professional caregivers of young children find the support they need through Healthy Child Care Washington (HCCW), a network of Child-Care Health Consultants that serves local health jurisdictions.

Child-Care Health Consultants work with local child-care providers, families, child-care licensors, Child-Care Resource & Referral programs, and others in the community.

Consultants offer assistance on a variety of topics, such as:

• growth and development
• child-care environments
• children with special needs
• infants and toddlers
• communicable disease
• health plans and policies
• emotional/behavioral concerns
• oral health
• nutrition
• SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

Consultants also offer education to all providers that are required by law and helps them to stay up on new and interesting topics as noted above.  All childcare centers with 4 or more infants are required by law to have Nurse consultants visit on a monthly basis.

For more information, contact Sherri Bartlett, email or 509-725-9213 x 31