Health Department Staff

Janet Hess, BSN, RN, Public Health Nurse

Susan J. Sooy, RN, BSN, Public Health Nurse

Dan McDonald, Animal Control Officer

Cara Sileno

Registered Environmental Health Specialist

Joan Quail, Clerk

The focus of the Rockaway Township Health Department is on disease prevention and education towards maintaining or adopting healthy behaviors.  To this end, a comprehensive schedule of health services and education programs is offered to the residents of Rockaway Township.

The mandate of the Health Department is to safeguard and improve the health of all Rockaway Township residents through education, screening, monitoring, and direct service programs.  
 

The Rockaway Township Health Department focuses on the following priority health issues:  

- Promoting healthy lives, especially for children, older people and underserved segments of the population;

- Monitoring and preventing infectious diseases and environmental threats;

- Coordinating with private and public entities that provide, regulate, finance, or otherwise affect the township’s health services;

- Creating and maintaining a health data collection system.

- Public Health Emergency Preparedness

[Schedule and Description of Services]