LIST OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS

County Local Health Dept. Director/

Administrator

NetHealth (Northeast TX Pub Health District)

Andrews Andrews City-CO Health Dept Debra McCullough

208 NW 2nd Street

Andrews 79714 915-524-1434 Angelina Angelina CO & Cities Health Dist Sharon Shaw 503 Hill Street Lufkin 75904

936-633-0605 Bell Bell CO Public Health Dist Wayne Farrell 201 North 8th

Street

Temple 76501 254-773-4457 Bexar San Antonio Metropolitan Hlth Dist Dr. Thomas

Schlenker

Bowie Texarkana-Bowie CO Fam Hlth Cntr Craig Lindholm 902 W. 12th Street

Texarkana 75501 903-798-3902 Brazoria Brazoria CO Health Department Cathy Sbrusch,

RN, BSN, CIC Brown Brownwood-Brown CO Health Dept Alicia Long 510 East Lee Brownwood 76801

915-646-0554 Calhoun Calhoun CO Health Dept Kathy Dietzel,

R.N.

117 West Ash St.

Port Lavaca 77979 361-552-9721 Cameron Cameron CO Health Dept Yvette Salinas 1390 W.

Expressway 83

San Benito 78586 956-247-3693 Cherokee Cherokee CO Health Dept Chris Taylor 593 N. Main

St.

Rusk 75785 903-683-4688 Collin Collin CO Health Care Services Candy Blair 825 N

McDonald St.

McKinney 75069 972-548-5500 Dallas Dallas CO Health & Human

Services

Denton Denton CO Health Dept Bing Burton, PhD

535 S. Loop 288

Denton 76205 940-349-2913 DeWitt Cuero-DeWitt CO Health Dept Maria Knebel 115 N

Gonzales Street

Cuero 77954 361-275-0920 Ector Ector CO Health Dept Gino Solla 221 North

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Fort Bend Fort Bend CO Health Dept (HHS) Mary desVignes-Kendrick, MD,

Galveston Galveston CO Health Dist Mark Guidry MD, MPH

P.O. Box 939 La Marque 77568-5925

409-938-2401 Grayson Grayson CO Health Dept John Teel,

Director Hale Plainview-Hale CO Health Dist Kelli Shurbet,

RN

111 East 10th Street

Plainview 79072 806-293-1359 Hardin Hardin CO Health Dept Mary Pastor,

M.D.

P.O. Box 820 Kountze 77625 409-246-5188 Harris Harris CO Public Health & Envirn

Services

Harris Houston Dept of HHS Stephen L.

Williams, M.Ed,

Harrison Marshall-Harrison CO Health Dist Tish Hudson 805 Lindsey Dr Marshall 75670 903-938-8338

Hays Hays CO Health Dept VACANT 401-A

Broadway

San Marcos 78666 512-393-5520 Hidalgo Hidalgo CO Health Dept Eduardo

Olivarez

1304 South 25th Ave.

Edinburg 78539 956-383-6221 Hunt Greenville-Hunt CO Health Dept Grady M.

McMahan, D.O.

2700 Johnson Street

Greenville 75401 903-408-4140 Jackson Jackson CO Health Dept Yvonne Janssen,

LVN

411 N Wells St, Rm 206

Edna 77957 361-782-5221 Jefferson Beaumont Public Health Dept Sherry Ulmer,

RN

Jefferson Port Arthur City Health Dept Yoshi D.

Alexander

449 Austin Avenue

Port Arthur 77641 409-983-8832 Lamar Paris-Lamar CO Health Dept Gena Pestridge 740 SW 6th Paris 75460

903-785-4561 Live Oak Live Oak County Health Dept Rachel Clayton 301 Houston

St.

George West 78022 361-449-2733, ext.1019 Lubbock Lubbock City Health Dept Bridget

Faulkenberry

McLennan Waco-McLennan CO Public Health Dist

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Midland Midland Health Dept Celestino Garcia, RS

Milam Milam CO Health Dept Patsy Gaines 209 South Houston Street

Cameron 76520 254-697-7039 Montgomery Montgomery CO Public Health

District

Navarro Corsicana-Navarro Public Health Dist

Newton, Jasper Jasper-Newton CO Public Health Dist Nolan Sweetwater-Nolan CO Health Dept Harvey Don

Ware, RS

P.O. Box 458 Sweetwater 79556 325-235-5463 Nueces Corpus Christi-Nueces CO PH Dist Annette

Rodriguez,

Orange Orange CO Health Dept Sheila Cole 2014 North 10th Street

Orange 77630 409-883-6119 Potter, Randall Amarillo (City of) Dept of Health Matt

Richardson,

Rusk Rusk County Local Health Unit Joel Hale - County Judge

115 N. Main Street, Ste. 104

Henderson 75652 903-657-0302 San Patricio San Patricio CO Dept of Health Delores Bacon 313 N. Rachal

Street

Sinton 78387 361-364-6208 ext.147 Scurry Scurry CO Health Unit Dana Eaton 911 26th Street Snyder 79549 325-573-3508 Tarrant Tarrant CO Public Health Dept Lou K. Brewer,

RN, MPH

1101 S. Main Street, Rm.

2412

Fort Worth 76104 817-321-4700

Taylor Abilene-Taylor CO Health Dept Larry Johnson P.O. Box 2818 Abilene 79601 915-692-5600 Terry, Yoakum,

Gaines, Dawson

South Plains Public Health Dist Doak Enabnit P.O. Box 112 Brownfield 79316-0112

806-637-2164

Tom Green San Angelo-Tom Green CO Hlth Dept

Sandra Villarreal, RS

2 City Hall Plaza

San Angelo 76903 915-657-4235 Travis Austin TCHHS Division (City of ) Shannon Jones P.O. Box 1088 Austin 78767

512-972-5010 Uvalde Uvalde CO Health Dept William R.

Mitchell

Courthouse Plaza Box 3

Uvalde 78801 830-278-3216

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Victoria Victoria City-CO Health Dept Bain C. Cate, MD

2805 North Navarro

Victoria 77901 361-578-6281 Webb Laredo (City of) Health Dept Hector

Gonzalez, MD

2600 Cedar Street

Laredo 78040 956-795-4900 Wichita Wichita Falls-Wichita CO PH Dist Lou Kreidler 1700 Third

Street

Wichita Falls 76301-2199

940-761-7805 Williamson Williamson CO & Cities PH Dist Chip Riggins,

MPH, MD

100 West 3rd Street

Georgetown 78626-5030

512-943-3600

Wood Wood CO Health Dept David C.

Murley, MD

Post Office Box 1704

Quitman 75783 903-763-5406

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