Services Provided

• Management and stocking of 12 Public Health Vending Machines (link brochure)
• Communicable disease prevention & education, surveillance, case investigation, and contact tracing
• Available for community events and fairs upon request
• Health education and prevention from licensed nurses
• Sexual Health education
• Tobacco, Cannabis and Vaping Prevention initiative
• Botvin Life Skills Training (with link) for the youth and training of trainers
• Influenza and COVID vaccinations, seasonally
• Rapid Point of Care (POC) tests for HIV, Hepatitis C, Syphilis
• Moccasins in Motion Program for the elderly population
• Injury prevention through passenger safety and car seat distribution by nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians.
• NARCAN distribution and education
• Harm reduction through our Syringe Services Program and referrals for individuals coping with substance use

PHHS Public Health Vending Machines
Find our Public Health Vending Machines at the following locations:

Cherokee Indian Hospital, Analenisgi Wing (1 Hospital Rd., Cherokee)
Big Cove Kolanvyi Community Center (8765 Big Cove Rd., Cherokee)
Big Y Community Club & Gym (2641 Wrights Creek Rd., Cherokee)
Cherokee County Indian Community Club (300 Airport Road, Marble)
Cherokee Tribal Food Distribution (2266 Old Mission Rd. Cherokee)
EBCI PHHS Administration Bldg. (43 John Crowe Hill, Cherokee)
Pamela Dawn Taylor Gym & Community Center (10 Old Gap Rd., Cherokee)
Peaches Squirrell Sports & Recreation Center (1212 Birdtown Rd., Cherokee)
Snowbird Jacob Cornsilk Complex (60 Snowbird School Rd., Robbinsville)
Qualla Boundary Head Start & Early Head Start (897 Acquoni Rd., Cherokee)
Yellowhill Elawodihi Activity Center (1416 Acquoni Rd., Cherokee)
*Food Lion’s machine is awaiting service. Please use a nearby alternative location.

Car Seat Program
At Tsalagi Public Health we value the safety of the children in our community. Preventable injuries are the number one cause of death to children in the United States. Child passenger safety requires consistent use of correctly installed safety seats, booster seats, or seat belts that are appropriate for a child’s height, weight, and age. We have Safe Kids certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians (CPST) on staff to assist with your car seat needs. Affordable car seats and booster seats are available to EBCI enrolled members. Call for an appointment.

• The parent, grandparent, or foster parent must present an enrollment card
• Pregnant women can obtain a seat during their third trimester. The seat should be properly fitted by the discharging hospital.
• No more than two seats per child.
• If the car seat is involved in a car accident, it can be exchanged at no cost with a copy of the police report.

 Grow With Me Seat for Infant & Up – $20
High Back Booster Seat – $10 – $20
Booster Seat – $10

EBCI Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) use a variety of social media options to communicate and interact with the public. Those sites and applications include popular social networking and media sites, such as Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. These social networking and media sites are operated by a third party, therefore your activity on these third party sites is governed by the security, privacy policy, and user agreements of those sites, which we have linked to below.

You should review the third-party security, privacy policies, and user agreements before using the sites and ensure that you understand how your information may be used. If you have an account with a third-party Web site, and choose to follow, like, friend, or comment certain information associated with your account may be made available to PHHS based on the privacy policy of the third-party Web site and your privacy settings within that third-party Web site. Therefore, you should also adjust privacy settings on your account to match your preferences.