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Board of Health Event Offers Free Testing on Diabetes Alert Day, March 26

DECATUR, Ga. – One in three American adults has prediabetes-and most of them don’t know it. The DeKalb County Board of Health wants you to understand your risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

As a part of American Diabetes Alert Day, the Board of Health is hosting a Diabetes Alert Day event on Tuesday, March 26. Stop by between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the T.O. Vinson Health Center, located at 440 Winn Way in Decatur. The event is free and open to the public.

Activities will include a panel discussion, healthy snacks and testing to measure blood sugar. Individuals with prediabetes can learn about and enroll in the Prevent T2 program to avoid developing type 2 diabetes.

“Everyone should be aware of their risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes,” said DeKalb County District Health Director S. Elizabeth Ford, M.D., M.B.A. “Diabetes Alert Day is a wake-up call about diabetes and the importance of being tested. Early diagnosis can enable people to receive prompt treatment.”

Both prediabetes and diabetes involve an above-normal sugar level in the blood. Early diagnosis can help avoid complications like include stroke, heart and kidney disease, blindness and amputation.

The Georgia Department of Public Health reports that, in 2017 among DeKalb’s adults, there were over 1,700 hospitalizations and 174 deaths due to diabetes complications. According to the 2018 State of Obesity report, at the current pace, Georgia is projected to have over 1 million cases of diabetes by 2030.

The Board of Health’s Diabetes Alert Day partners include the Diabetes “You Can Win” Foundation, The Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority, the Live Healthy DeKalb Coalition and the Ruby A. Neeson Diabetes Awareness Foundation.

For more information, call (404) 508-7847 or email dekalb.ocdp@dph.ga.gov.

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Due to unplanned maintenance,
our Clifton Springs Health Center will be on CLOSED on Monday, November 4, 2024.

Our East DeKalb, T. O. Vinson and North DeKalb
Health Centers remain open to serve you.

We apologize for any inconvenience and
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Due to unexpected maintenance, our Clifton Springs Health Center will be closing early today at 2:30 p.m.
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AIR QUALITY UPDATE 

Current weather models show that winds will begin to shift
from the east to the west after sunset on Wednesday.

Smoke from the BioLab facility fire in Rockdale County is predicted to settle towards the ground as it moves toward Atlanta. There is a high likelihood that people across Metro Atlanta will wake up on Thursday morning seeing haze and smelling chlorine.

For more information about health precautions, click here.

last updated 10/2/2024 at 5:45 p.m.

Warning SERVICE ALERT UPDATE Warning

DeKalb Public Health will resume normal operations
for all health centers and services at 8:15 a.m.,
on Monday, September 30.

SERVICE ALERT 

Due to today’s worldwide cybersecurity outage, some services have been impacted.

  • You may experience delays reaching our Call Center, which handles health center appointments.
  • WIC benefit issuance is unavailable at this time. However, eWIC cards can still be used at authorized WIC vendors.


This outage has not only affected DeKalb Public Health, but other government and business services, in Georgia, throughout the nation and internationally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience, as we work with our partners to fully restore systems.

SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Tuesday December 24 and Wednesday, December 25th, in observance of the holiday. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

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In observance of Juneteenth, all DeKalb Public Health centers will be closed on Wednesday, June 19th. #happyjuneteenth

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