The Department of Health has resumed services at the East Baton Rouge Parish Health Unit on Florida Blvd. The health unit was closed on July 7 after LDH received a report that detailed the presence of mold throughout the building.
The health unit provides various health services and serves as the office of many public health programs, including:
• reproductive health clinics (family planning and STD/HIV prevention and care),
• regional tuberculosis services,
• immunizations,
• children’s special health services clinics,
• vital records,
• sanitarian services and
• Nurse Family Partnership services.
The building is owned by the East Baton Rouge City-Parish but is staffed by the Department of Health’s Office of Public Health.
Dr. Marilyn Reynaud, regional medical director for the Office of Public Health, said the building has been cleaned and is now safe.