The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is the local governmental public health agency serving Pierce County and the City of Tacoma; its mission is to protect and promote community health through disease prevention and control, environmental health regulation, clinical services, emergency preparedness, health promotion, and efforts to advance health equity.
Public health funding and infrastructure; communicable disease control and vaccination programs; environmental health standards (food safety, water and sewage, vector control); maternal and child health and immunizations; substance-use and tobacco prevention; emergency preparedness and response; access to clinical and preventive services and health equity initiatives
Primarily local government appropriations (city and county), supplemented by state and federal public health grants and contracts, fee-for-service revenue, Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements, and occasional foundation grants
Pierce County government; City of Tacoma; Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health; Washington State Department of Health; local health care systems and community partner organizations
Local public health agency (government)
