As a department within Cullman County Schools, School Health Services promotes a comprehensive school health program designed to appraise, protect, and promote the health of students. We believe that good health is a prerequisite to learning. The School Health Services Department is designed to:

• 1. Provide direct care to students

• 2. Long-term management of students with special healthcare needs

• 3. Provides leadership for the provision of health services within a school

• 4. Prevent and control communicable diseases and other health conditions

• 5. Manage chronic disease

• 6. Provide emergency care for illness or injury

• 7. Promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility

• 8. Provide education and counseling opportunities for the promotion and maintenance of individual, family, and community health.