Vision and Mission

Vision

An optimal environment in which our community can flourish

Mission

Promote, provide for and protect the health and well-being of our community and environment. 

Goals

Assist and advise the Teton County Health Department implement the 10 Essential Services of Public Health:

1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate and empower residents about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop polities and plans that support individual and community health efforts. 
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable. 
8. Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, quality of personal and population-based health services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. 

* Source: National Association of County and City Health Officials.