Company: Medina County Health Department

In the early 1900s, communities recognized the need for organizations to be responsible for the health and well being of their citizens. During that time the Medina County Health Department was created, and in the early 1960s the Cities of Brunswick, Medina, and Wadsworth banded together with the townships to create a single, county-wide health district, managed by the Medina County Board of Health. They are responsible for tracking births in the county, providing vaccines to prevent a variety of illnesses, working with groups to prevent injuries like overdoses, educating students and parents on the dangers of vaping and tobacco, assisting women, infants, and children to get the nutrition and education they need, inspecting restaurants, pools, and campgrounds, managing mosquito populations and educating people on mosquito-borne illnesses, inspecting car seats, providing support to families of newborns, and much more! In 2019 they were recognized as a Federally Qualified Health Center which means they get money from the federal government to help anyone who comes into their clinics.