COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT

The Edwards County Health Department is committed to your health and well-being at every stage of life. We offer a variety of services to address Community Health, Family Health, and Personal Health needs.


Our family planning services are available on a sliding fee scale to ensure affordability, and we also administer the Kansas WIC program, which provides nutritional support for pregnant women, new mothers, and young children who meet income eligibility and nutritional risk criteria. Additionally, we can help determine your eligibility for the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support your health journey.

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Community Health

Communicable Disease

  • Investigation & monitoring of outbreaks of communicable disease
  • Educate public on prevention & control of communicable disease
  • HIV testing & counseling
  • Hepatitis education & counseling
  • Rabies
  • Tuberculosis testing & treatment follow up.

Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)

  • Mass Distribution of Medicine
  • Emergency trainings & exercises

Education & Information Available

  • Travel immunizations
  • Diabetic care
  • Food stamps
  • Utility assistance
  • Department of Children & Families
  • Safe Haven
  • Infant/Child car seat information and referral
  • Daycare information
  • KanCare/Medicaid
  • STIs/HIV/AIDS
  • Literature & special programs available by request

Referrals for:

  • Environmental health issues to Central Kansas Local Environmental Planning Group (CKLEPG) for home evaluation, complaints, & lender evaluations
  • Lead Evaluations
  • Water Testing Referral

Family Health

Family Planning Services*

  • Women’s Health
  • Pregnancy Testing/Prenatal Service Referral
  • Education, counseling, & referral
  • Breast /Pelvic exams & pap smears
  • Birth Control: Pills, DEPO & Condoms
  • Blood pressure
  • Screenings/Treatments/Counseling for STIs/HIV
  • Teen Counseling (confidential)

Maternal & Infant Services (M&I Service)

  • Prenatal education
  • Childbirth class referral
  • Education for newborn & family
  • Maternal & Infant Program referral
  • Breastfeeding  promotion

Information & referral service for Children with Special Health Needs


Kansas Statewide Farmworker Health Program


Nutritional Services

  • Kansas WIC** Supplemental food program for pregnant, breastfeeding, & post-partum women, infants & children to the age of five
  • Assessment & Education to promote health
  • Emergency Food Assistance
  • Commodities

Healthy Start Program

  • For women before & after baby is born.
  • Purposes are to educate, provide emotional support, and refer to community services.

* Family Planning Services are on a sliding fee scale.

** Kansas WIC is a program based on income eligibility and nutritional risk.


WIC is an equal opportunity program.  If you feel that you have been discriminated against because of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap, write to the Director, Office of Advocacy, or the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250.  If you disagree with any decision made by the local agency, you have the right to a fair hearing.  Contact the local agency for procedures under which the hearings are processed.

Personal Health

Health Assessments

  • Physicals for Kan-Be-Healthy, Day Care, Preschool, & Kindergarten
  • Hearing Screening & Tympanometry
  • Vision Screening
  • Developmental Screening

 VFC*  & Private Vaccines

  • Td, DTaP, & Tdap—Tetanus
  • Varivax—Chicken Pox
  • Prevnar 13 (children) & 
  • Pneumococcal (adult)—Pneumonia
  • IPV—Polio 
  • Rotavirus
  • HPV—Gardasil (girls & boys)
  • Haemophilus Influenzae type B (HIB)
  • Hepatitis A & B
  • Influenza (flu)
  • MMR (measles, mumps, & rubella)
  • Meningococcal (meningitis)

Screenings, Monitoring, Education & Referrals for:

  • Tuberculosis testing
  • Head lice checks
  • Ear & throat checks
  • Anemia 
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Urinalysis 
  • Vision & Hearing
  • Height & Weight
  • Blood Lead Testing (for children under the age of six)
  • Diabetic Foot Care

* VFC eligibility—No insurance or KanCare/Medicaid or under-insured.

We are a smoke-free establishment and promote the

Kansas Tobacco Quitline.

24-Hour Availability

1-866-QUIT-NOW (1-866-784-8669)

CONTACT US

This Health Department does have charges for services. but no one will be refused services for an inability to pay.

We believe everyone will pay what they can reasonably afford.


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CONTACT


PHONE: (620) 659-3102

FAX: (620) 659-3017

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ADDRESS


807 E. 4th Street

Kinsley, KS 67547

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HOURS

Mon - Fri
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Sat - Sun
Closed