Take steps to protect yourself

Clean your hands often

• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.

Avoid close contact

• Avoid close contact with people who are sick
• Put distance between yourself and other people if COVID-19 is spreading in your community. This is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick.

For more information on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID19), please visit the following links:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

http://www.dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/diseases-and-conditions/diseases-a-z-list/coronavirus

Who can receive Family Case Management services?

• Are you pregnant?
• Do you have a child under age 1?
• Are you on Medicaid?
• Are you part of a low-income family?

The Family Case Management program can help you:

• Find a doctor for your prenatal care to make sure you have a healthy baby
• Find a doctor for your children’s care
• Understand proper nutrition for you and your child
• Understand the stages of your child’s development

The Family Case Management program can also help you get other kinds of assistance:

• WIC
• Family Planning
• Health Education
• Child Care
• Immunizations
• All Kids (Health Insurance)

A Skilled Nursing Care program offers home visits made by RN’s LPN’s, and Licensed Social Workers, under a physician’s direction. We also offer teaching and supportive care for families and patients with various illnesses. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy and are also available.

Home Health Services:
State licensed, Medicare certified provider serving Gallatin, Hardin, Hamilton, Pope, Saline and White counties in Illinois and is located in Harrisburg (Saline). Contact 618-383-1261 TTY 618-384-5811.

Egyptian Health Department (EHD) is a State licensed, Medicare certified Home Health provider in Eldorado serving Gallatin, Hardin, Hamilton, Pope, Saline and White counties in Illinois. Contact 618-383-1261 TTY 618-384-5811

EHD offers skilled nursing care home visits made by RNs and LPNs with a current RN to patient ratio of 1:10. The ratio does not exceed 1:15 depending on the acuity of patient’s needs. We also offer Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and limited Speech Therapy depending on availability and demographic location, education of medical diagnosis, needed skills and supportive care for families and patients with various illnesses.

Patients are accepted without discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, age, handicap (mental or physical), communicable disease or place of national origin.

Patients are accepted for care based on consideration of the adequacy and suitability of agency staff, resources to provide the required services and reasonable expectations that the patient’s medical, nursing and rehabilitative needs can be adequately met in the patient’s place of residence and within the scope of practice of Egyptian Home Health.

While patients are accepted for services based on their medical needs, the patient’s ability to pay for such services, either through federal assistance programs as Medicare, private insurance, or personal assets are factors to be considered. We currently do not accept state assistance programs for Medicaid or Managed Medicaid.

The agency reserves the right to decline services to patients not meeting admission criteria.

Updated December 26, 2024

Services offered to infants, children, and adults:

• VFC – (Vaccine for Children program) for children 2 mos – 18 years, who meet qualifications
• Private stock vaccines

We are able to bill most insurances.

No appointment needed (Please bring current shot record and insurance card)

Call to find out more information about the immunization program

What is IPLAN?

The Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) is a community health assessment and planning process that is conducted every five years by local health jurisdictions in Illinois. Based on the Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health (APEX-PH) model, IPLAN is grounded in the core functions of public health and addresses public health practice standards. The completion of IPLAN fulfills most of the requirements for Local Health Department certification under Illinois Administrative Code Section 600.400: Certified Local Health Department Code Public Health Practice Standards. The essential elements of IPLAN are:

1. an organizational capacity assessment;
2. a community health needs assessment; and
3. a community health plan, focusing on a minimum of three priority health problems.

Egyptian Health Department’s IPLAN 2021-2026

• WIC (Women, Infants, and Children
• Family Case Management
• Immunizations
• Lead Testing
• Genetics/Newborn Screening Program

Hours:​

Eldorado and Carmi Offices

Monday: 8 am – 4 pm
Tuesday: 8 am – 5 pm
Wednesday: 8 am – 4 pm
Thursday: 8 am – 6 pm
Friday: 8 am – 12 pm
Closed 12 – 1 pm for lunch each day
Holiday Weeks Open 8 am – 4 pm Daily

Shawneetown Office

Wednesdays: 8 am – 4 pm

TB skin testing is done at each public health clinic. EHD nurses investigate contacts of all active cases. EHD offers a range of services including physician referrals, and obtaining sputum specimens. Nurses at each of our county offices can help you receive the testing and treatment needed.

TB Tests are given:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
Hours: 8am-11:30 and 1 pm-3:30pm.
No TB tests are given on Thursdays.
Please call for appointment.
273-3326 Ext. 2171

WIC is a food assistance program for Women, Infants, and Children. This program helps pregnant women, new mothers and young children eat well and stay healthy.

​Who can receive these services?

Women and their children who are:

• Pregnant, breastfeeding or just had a baby
• Infants and children under 5 years old (including foster children)
• Families with a low to medium income

What services are offered?

WIC can provide:

• EBT Card to buy health foods – like milk, juice, eggs, cheese, cereal, dry beans or peas, and peanut butter
• Information about nutrition and health to help you and your family eat well and be healthy
• Information and help about breastfeeding
• Help in finding health care and other services in your area

SNAP and FDPIR state or local agencies, and their subrecipients, must post the following Nondiscrimination Statement:

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity. Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation.

The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or

2. fax: (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or

3. email: program.intake@usda.gov

This institution is an equal opportunity provider. 5/5/2022