Mission of the Health Department - Hopewell Township, New Jersey

Hopewepp Township

Health Department

Mission Statement

"Healthy People in a Healthy Community"

To assure all valley residents a safe community and healthy environment to
raise their families through Public Health based environmental health
regulation and personal health services which meet the needs of all members
of the community and to promote healthy lifestyles through preventive education initiatives.

Long Range Goals

Implementation and compliance with the public health practice standards ten (10) essential public health functions.

These include the following:

Monitor health status to identify community health problems

Diagnose and investigate health problems in the community
Inform, educated and empower people regarding health
issues
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
Develop policies and plans which support individual and
community health efforts
Enforce the laws and regulations that protect health and
ensure safety
Link people to needed personal health services and assure
health care when it is otherwise unavailable
Ensure a competent local public health system and assure a
competent personal health care workforce
Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility and quality of
personal and population based health services
Research for innovative solutions to health problems

This will be accomplished through a collaborative process with the County and other health departments and health services agencies in the greater Mercer area.

Short Range goals
1. Develop community partnerships with Key agencies and organizations.

2. Review the APEX Organizational capacities report and develop a plan to meet the deficiencies noted in the outcome report.

3. Start work on MAPP at a local level and County level.

4. Continue working towards a computerized data information system for well and septic information.

5. Encourage the township committee move forward with adopting a wastewater management district as recommended in the Master plan.

6. To plan for its implementation, including the hiring of staff.

7. Continue to work with property owners on septic and well issues when as part of the recently enacted sale, rental and change of use ordinance.

8. Reintroduce the oil tank ordinance after rewriting the sections found to be confusing by the court.