Your Community Health Update

Changes in Clinic Locations and Days

Effective April 5, 2010 - All HIV testing, Family Planning, and STI clinics will be held at 3033 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201. (These services will no longer be offered at 800 S. Walter Reed Dr.) Click here to view announcement. 

New dates/times effective April 5th 

HIV Testing                (Wednesday-3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Thursday-Noon to 2:00 p.m.)

STI Clinic                    (Monday-Noon to 3:00 p.m. and Thursday-3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.)

Family Planning Clinic (Monday-Noon to 4:00 p.m.; Tuesday-Noon to 8:00 p.m.; Wednesday-8:00 a.m. to noon; Thursday-8:00 a.m. to noon (1st and 3rd wks)

Protect yourself from Norovirus

Reports of increased gastrointestinal illness in the Arlington community. Learn more. 

Preventing the Flu

Lean how to protect yourself from Seasonal and Pandemic (H1N1) Flu!

Watch the Public Health Preventing the Flu Video.

Anyone can have a bed bug problem!

Anyone can have a bed bug problem.  For more information about bed bugs, their bites, and how to get rid of them, please click the Bed Bugs Information link.

STI/Family Planning clinics - 703-228-1200
Monday, 12 noon – 3:00 pm at 3033 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22201
Thursday, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm at 800 South Walter Reed Drive, Arlington, VA 22204 - Map  (through the end of March 2010)

  AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) - 703-228-1274 (English) or 703-228-1243 (Español)
3033 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 200B, Arlington, VA 22201 - Map

The ADAP program provides medication for the treatment of HIV/Aids to individuals without insurance coverage or third party
benefits for ADAP medications. The individual must meet financial eligibility requirements. Clients are seen by appointment only.

Hours of Operation:    Mondays, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm
                                Wednesdays, 2:00 pm − 6:00 pm

  Child Health (Well Child) Clinic - 703-228-1200
The goals are to prevent childhood disease, disability, or mortality and to promote optimum physical and mental development by providing preventive health assessments and parental education at recommended intervals for infants and children from six weeks to five years of age. Services include well child exams which consist of a physical exam; developmental and nutritional assessment; vision, hearing, and lead poisoning screening; health and parent education; and assessment and provision of needed immunizations.

  Dental Clinic - 703-228-1200
The program goal is to prevent the harmful effects of dental disease among members of the target population: children through high school age (and adults 60 years of age and older). The core services include preventive and diagnostic procedures such as examinations, x-rays, fluoride treatments, prophylaxis, and occlusal sealants.

  Disease Surveillance and Investigation Program -  703-228-5200 Option #1 for Health Care Providers. If you are not a Health Care Provider, press option #6, then #4 to speak with program staff.
800 South Walter Reed Drive, Arlington, VA 22204 - Map
The goal of the program is to prevent the spread of communicable diseases (e.g., hepatitis A, bacterial meningitis, food borne illness, etc.) in the community. The program provides surveillance and investigation of reportable communicable diseases in Arlington County as mandated by Virginia State law. Community education and consultation is also provided.

Environmental Health Bureau - 703-228-7400
The Bureau's activities consist of reviewing architect plans and conducting inspections of food and swimming pool facilities, issuing health licenses, providing educational services, investigating complaints, and enforcing codes and ordinances. A number of the Environmental Health Bureau's programs, such as retail food, on-site sewage disposal, swimming pools and hotels are mandated by local ordinances and State codes. Several other programs in the Bureau are offered as a service to the residents of the County. These consist of a low-cost rabies vaccination clinic, rodent and mosquito surveillance, and the issuance of massage and death certificates. Visit our web site for more information.

  Family Health Nursing - 703-228-1200
The Family Health Bureau provides home based case management services by Public Health Nurses for women of child-bearing age, children ages birth to school age, and their families. The Public Health Nurses work in collaboration with families in a caring, supportive, professional relationship. They provide assessment, teaching, guidance, advocacy and community linkage, thereby empowering families to become independent and informed to make decisions that maximize their health and well being.

  Family Planning Clinic - 703-228-1200
The goals are to prevent unintended pregnancy, support planned conception, and promote health. Services include providing contraception, pregnancy testing and counseling, physical examinations, and health screenings for sexually transmitted diseases, chronic diseases, and HIV.

  Immunization Clinic - 703-228-1200
The Code of Virginia requires that children be immunized against selected diseases and authorizes the exclusion from school of children who are not immunized. For information about immunizations and other vaccines, visit our immunization page.

  Laboratory - 703-228-5612
The goal of the laboratory is to prevent the spread of disease and minimize adverse health outcomes for individuals and families by providing services in support of state and County health programs through accurate, timely, and cost effective completion of laboratory studies. These studies provide information necessary for the control, diagnosis, and treatment of communicable and chronic diseases. The presence of an on-site laboratory allows more efficient treatment and tracking of communicable diseases and early intervention of preventable disease processes.

  Maternity Clinic - 703-228-1200
The goals are to prevent poor pregnancy outcomes and to promote optimum future functioning of the mother and child by providing prenatal care consisting of clinic visits, health education, nutrition counseling, and case management services. The target population is women who are pregnant, reside in Arlington County, and have no health insurance coverage or access to prenatal care.

  Occupational Health - 703-228-4815
The Occupational Health Program serves Arlington County Government employees. The program's goal is to prevent occupational disease and injury by:

1. Assessing work sites for disease or injury potential
2. Collecting and analyzing data related to occupational disease or injury
3. Educating employees about preventing disease or injury

  Parent-Infant Education Program (PIE) - 703-228-1630
The goal of the PIE program is to reduce the impact of developmental delays and disabilities on the growth and development of infants and toddlers, birth to 2 years of age, by helping families to work effectively with them and by providing early intervention services.

The PIE Program wants all babies to grow healthy and, when the time comes, to enter school ready to learn. Refer to First Steps to Your Baby's Future for a sampling of things babies should be able to do at various ages.

  Refugee Services - 703-228-5200 Option #4
800 South Walter Reed Drive, Arlington, VA 22204 - Map
The Refugee program provides health screening, referral, counseling, and education for newly arrived refugees. The program goal is to prevent the spread of communicable disease and prevent long-term chronic illness.

  School Health Services - 703-228-1650
 The goal of this program is to prevent health related disruption of the learning process from illness and injury at 30 school sites. The most visible function of the School Health Program is first aid and care of the sick child provided in the school clinic by the clinic aide. However, the core program also emphasizes the promotion of self-care and sound health practices and the implementation of the full range of public health services by public health nurses in the schools and community.

   Tuberculosis Clinic/Chest Clinic - 703-228-5200 Option #2
800 South Walter Reed Drive, Arlington, VA 22204 - Map
The tuberculosis or TB program works to control and prevent TB in Arlington County. We provide diagnosis and treatment of active TB disease and we identify those exposed and infected with TB germs. Clinic services include tuberculin skin tests, chest x-rays and TB treatment. Clinics are held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 to 6:30 p.m. by appointment only. You must call for an appointment.

  WIC (Nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children Program) - 703-228-1260
This federally funded program has as its goals the prevention of nutritional deficiencies and the support of optimum growth and development among the persons served. The program provides a combination of direct nutritional supplements, nutrition education, and access to health care and social services for medically indigent pregnant, breast-feeding, and postpartum women; their infants; and their children up to the age of five years.

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