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About the Department
Welcome to the Edgewater Health Department. We are located in the Edgewater Community Center at 1167 River Road. Our goal is to encourage a healthy community.
Members of our team include a Health Officer, Public Health Nurses, a Registered Environmental Health Specialist (R.E.H.S), a Secretary/Registrar of Vital Statistics, and an appointed Board of Health.
Welcome to the Edgewater Health Department. We are located in the Edgewater Community Center at 1167 River Road. Our goal is to encourage a healthy community.
Members of our team include a Health Officer, Public Health Nurses, a Registered Environmental Health Specialist (R.E.H.S), a Secretary/Registrar of Vital Statistics, and an appointed Board of Health.
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Board of Health
Registrar
- Lynn Minetti, CMR - Board of Health Secretary / Registrar of Vital Statistics
Health Officer
Bergen County Department of Health Services
- Health Officer: Hansel F. Asmar
One Bergen County Plaza
4th Floor
Hackensack, NJ 07601-7076
Phone: 201-634-2600
Fax: 201-336-6086
healthdept@co.bergen.nj.us
Sanitary Inspector
- Bergen County Department of Health Services
Public Health Goals
- Assures the quality and accessibility of health services
- Prevents injuries
- Promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
- Protects against environmental hazards
- Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery
Essential Public Health Services
- Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
- Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
- Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
- Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
- Monitor health status to identify community health problems
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems