Barren River District Health Department

The Barren River District Health Department serves the residents and visitors of Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Metcalfe, Simpson and Warren Counties of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 

BRDHD was united as a District Health Department in July 1982. BRDHD and its staff are still committed in assuring the essential public health services are met in the community. 

Click here to view an Organizational Chart of BRDHD.

Our Mission

To Promote and Protect the health of our community through the Prevention of disease, injury and disability.

Our Vision

Envisioning Healthy Citizens, Nurturing Families, and Safe Communities in South Central Kentucky

Our Values

Professional, caring, competent, dependable, and teamwork

Essential Public Health Services
 

• Monitor health status to identify community health problems
   

• Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
   

• Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
   

• Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
   

• Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
   

• Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
   

• Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of    health care when otherwise unavailable
   

• Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce
   

• Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population- based health services
   

• Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems