Kent County Health Department

About

Kent County Health Department is committed to a healthy community and environment in which all residents have reasonable access to quality health care and preventive services in order to achieve the highest possible level of wellness.

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Kent County Health Department (KCHD) welcomes and encourages interaction from our followers; however, we do ask that certain guidelines be followed when commenting or posting on our page. Please review our commenting or posting guidelines:

We monitor KCHD sponsored social media profiles and pages, but are not responsible for the content generated by users.

KCHD will answer questions during state business office hours (Monday- Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) as time permits. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away, and we are trusting in the maturity of our community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech and to respond politely.

Comments, links, and images posted by non KCHD personnel may not provide correct information or represent the views of KCHD.

Our profiles and pages may contain website links and advertising from the social media platform but does not constitute endorsement by KCHD.

Content posted on the KCHD’s social media accounts becomes a public record.

Posts or comments in violations of the guidelines will be removed:

Profanity, obscenity, vulgarity, advertising, political campaigning, hate speech, nudity, intellectual property infringements, and defamation to a person or organization.

Solicitations or advertisements.

Off-topic, excessively repetitive and/or disruptive to the online community and our social media efforts.

Comments or photos that suggest or encourage illegal activity.

Personal information such as address, social security number, health conditions, and other confidential/private information.

Copyrighted or trademarked images or graphics.

Mission

To preserve and protect the wellbeing of the population by identifying, prioritizing, and addressing health factors that may threaten the health and safety of the community.