Dalton (GA) – The North Georgia Health District office will soon move. After more than thirty years in Bry-man’s Plaza North, the health district staff will relocate to new offices, beginning Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26.

The North Georgia Health District, one of 18 districts under the Georgia Department of Public Health, provides administrative support to public health departments and environmental health offices in Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens and Whitfield Counties, and it oversees the public health services and programs offered in these six counties.

North Georgia Health District office employees and district level services will occupy three office buildings near the North Dalton Bypass.

The main district administrative office address will be 1710 Whitehouse Court in Dalton, and the main office phone number will be (706) 529-5757.

While all health district staff and programs will share the main mailing address, some district level programs and departments will be housed in separate buildings, nearby.

District level Women’s, Infant and Children (WIC) will move to 1620 Hickory Street, and the district WIC phone number will be (706) 529-5742.

The district’s Environmental Health and Emergency Preparedness departments will also relocate to1620 Hickory Street, but both departments may be reached by dialing the main district number at (706) 529-5757.

District Children with Special Needs programs, including Children 1st, Babies Can’t Wait and Children’s Medical Services, will be housed at 1622 Hickory Street, and that phone number will be (706) 529-5763.

The North Georgia Health District’s mission focuses on improving the quality of people’s lives through disease prevention, healthy lifestyle education and emergency preparedness.

For more information about the North Georgia Health District, log on here to our home page at www.nghd.org or visit us on Facebook at facebook.com/N.GA.Health.