Ringgold County Public Health transitioned efforts April 1, 2012 from the two-year tobacco prevention project to additional areas that make healthy living easier. A new five-year plan includes increasing physical activity, healthy eating options, managing weight, and tobacco-free living.  Public Health will support community-level efforts to reduce chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Chronic […]

Today, the Surgeon General issued a new report titled Prevention Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults. Almost 50 years after the landmark 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on tobacco, Dr. Regina Benjamin, United States Surgeon General, released a new report and called on the nation to make the next generation tobacco-free. According to the report, […]

  Ringgold County Public Health was formed in 1972 thanks to a three-year federal grant and a portion of county funding.  At that time, the agency employed two nurses and a secretary.  Today the agency is operated efficiently under a variety of funding sources including service fees, grants, state, federal and minimal county funding.  The […]