Porter County, Indiana: Working Together To Prevent Deaths

Porter county's mobile health clinic gives local residents easy access to childhood lead testing, tobacco cessation programs, chronic disease management, immunizations, std testing, narcan. Child fatality review (cfr) is a collaborative process that can help us better understand why child fatalities occur within the community, and help us identify how we can prevent future deaths. Find information about the health department's adult, childhood and travel immunization programs. Find information about the health department's low cost laboratory tests. Find information about recycling resources for porter county residents.

Northwest health holds the county contract for ems services, responding to 911 calls from four stations within porter county. To best meet the needs of the community, northwest health and inhealth have agreed to collaborate for stronger utilization of limited resources. Decrease the crude rate of suicide deaths in porter county from 16. 0 per 100,000 in 2023 to 14. 0 per 100,000 by 2027. Activities implement interventions from the sofr community action team increase awareness on 988 through a widespread media campaign increase training countywide in mental health first aid, qpr, and aces County health rankings (robert wood johnson foundation).