Wood County Health Department

What Wood County Health Department does

Wood County Health Department is a county government public health entity serving the residents of Wood County, Wisconsin. It delivers three core public health service lines: an Immunization Services program operating 20 clinic locations that administered 288 childhood vaccines in 2025; a Communicable Disease Surveillance program that tracked 818 disease cases and 18 outbreaks in 2025 (up from 719 cases and 9 outbreaks in 2024); and an Environmental Health Program that conducts licensing and inspection of food service and retail operations, executing more than 900 inspection activities annually.

The department operates on a publicly funded model rather than a commercial revenue model. Its approximately $2 million annual operating budget is funded through property tax revenues (about 20%) supplemented by other government funding sources. It employs 79 staff and serves a population of over 130,000 county residents. Services are delivered directly to residents and businesses through on-site clinics and inspections rather than through any digital platform or marketplace.

In 2025 the department extended its programmatic scope beyond traditional public health services into food access research, securing a USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program grant and partnering with the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and the Central Wisconsin Farmers Market Collaborative to study farmers market engagement in the region. No proprietary technology products, commercial offerings, or AI/ML capabilities are indicated in the input data.

Name

Wood County Health Department

Legal name

Wood County Health Department

Website

https://woodcountyhealth.org

Company type

Public

Founded year

1920

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Wood County Health Department is a Wisconsin county government entity that provides public health services — immunization clinics, communicable disease surveillance, and environmental health inspections — to over 130,000 Wood County residents on a roughly $2 million tax-funded budget.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Services

NAICS

Administration of Public Health Programs (92312), Administration of Public Health Programs (923120), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

County/District/Local Health Departments (HLAJAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

National/State/Local Immunization Program Offices (HLAJAHAA), Immunization & Vaccination Programs Administration (BPAIAJAD), Local Public Health & Human Services Administration (BPAIACAK), Public & Private Vaccine Provider Networks (Clinics/Pharmacies/Physicians) (HLAJAHAB)

Keywords

• Public health services
• Immunization programs
• Disease surveillance
• Environmental health inspections
• Community health monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Bowling Green

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Property Tax Revenue: Property tax revenues comprise approximately 20% of the health department's $2 million annual budget, providing a stable base of government funding for public health operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Core offering

Wood County Health Department delivers mandated public health services to county residents, operating 20 immunization clinics that administer childhood vaccines, conducting communicable disease surveillance and outbreak response, and running an Environmental Health Program that licenses and inspects food service and retail operations across the county.

Product overview

Wood County Health Department provides essential public health services to over 130,000 residents, including childhood immunization programs (20 clinics administering 288 vaccines), communicable disease surveillance and outbreak tracking (818 cases in 2025), and environmental health inspection/licensing services (900+ activities). These services represent the department's core public health offerings rather than commercial product lines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Immunization Services
• Communicable Disease Surveillance
• Environmental Health Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Served over 130,000 residents with public health services
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Central Wisconsin Farmers Market CollaborativeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025Collaboration with market managers and local planners through the Farmers Market Collaborative. Student presented findings at a December meeting to help improve market access and support local farmers.
• University of Wisconsin–Stevens PointminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025Student Elina Abrahamson from UW-Stevens Point completed a summer internship with Wood County government as a grant research intern on a USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program grant. She created an interactive StoryMap showing how Central Wisconsin farmers markets work.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB): Sets accreditation standards for U.S. governmental public health departments. Comparable because PHAB defines the performance benchmarks that local departments like Wood County Health Department must meet.
• American Public Health Association (APHA): Professional association governing public-health practice standards and advocacy. Comparable as the broader professional ecosystem defining the service standards that Wood County Health Department implements locally.
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Membership organization representing local health departments across the U.S. Comparable because NACCHO provides the policy, training, and funding-administration ecosystem in which departments like Wood County Health Department operate.

Broad incumbents

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Federal public-health agency providing guidance, surveillance systems, and funding that local departments like Wood County rely on. Comparable as the upstream federal counterpart in disease surveillance and immunization programs.
• Wisconsin Department of Health Services: State-level public health authority administering programs and distributing funding to local health departments in Wisconsin. Directly comparable as the state-level entity overseeing Wood County Health Department.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WCHDOhio
• Facebookfacebook.com/WCHDOhio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wood-county-health-district

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