Town Health Departments
Town Health Departments/Local Public Health on Cape Cod
Each of the 15 towns that comprise Barnstable County has its own autonomous health department and board of health that respond to local public health needs in their immediate jurisdiction. This might include restaurant or housing complaints, water quality concerns, flu vaccination clinics, emergency planning and response, Title 5 septic system inspections and plan approvals, etc. To learn more about the relationship between county/regional government and the local health departments on Cape Cod, view the information in the tabs below.
To visit your town health department website, click your town on the map below.
Barnstable County, also known as the Cape Cod regional government, provides support for the 15 towns: Barnstable, Bourne, Chatham, Dennis, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet, and Yarmouth. As stated in the Home Rule Charter, Barnstable County functions to “develop effective services to meet problems which cross municipal boundaries, to provide sophisticated services which might be beyond the ability of a single community to support and a desire to obtain the efficiencies and economies of scale.” Also stated in the Charter, it is NOT the role of the County to “impair, diminish or infringe upon the powers or duties of the cities and towns under the General Laws”.
Barnstable County’s Department of Health and Environment (BCDHE) provides support in the form of regional programs and services to facilitate local public health initiatives. These include public health nursing, inspectional services, the Bathing Beach Monitoring Program, the Tobacco Control Program, the Cape Cod and Southeast Massachusetts Rabies Control Task Force, the Community Septic Loan Program, the Cape Cod Hoarding Task Force, the Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee, and more.
In 2004, the Cape & Islands Health Agents Coalition (C&I HAC) was established as a collaboration between BCDHE, the 15 towns and Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, as well as the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MA DPH). The Coalition benefits from credentialed public health training workshops, ongoing environmental health education seminars, public health emergency response drills and regulatory guidance updates; all of which provide our local public health officials the opportunity to become more adept at situational awareness, public health emergency planning, environmental health oversight, and crisis management. The C&I HAC is facilitated by BCDHE staff.
Contact your Local Health Agent
Thomas McKean, Barnstable Health
Send an Email
(508) 862-4644 Address:
200 Main Street
Hyannis MA, 02601
Terri Guarino, Bourne Health
Address:
24 Perry Avenue
Buzzards Bay, MA 02532
Amy VonHone, Brewster Health
Address:
2198 Main Street
Brewster, MA 02631
Judith Giorgio, Chatham Health
Address:
261 George Ryder Road
Chatham, MA 02633
Jane Crowley, Eastham Health
Address:
2500 State Highway
Eastham, MA 02642
Scott McGann, Falmouth Health
Address:
59 Town Hall Square
Falmouth MA 02540
Kathleen O'Neill, Harwich Health
Address:
732 Main Street
Harwich, MA 02645
Glen E. Harrington, Mashpee Health
Address:
16 Great Neck Road
North Mashpee, MA 02649
Alexandra Fitch, Orleans Health
Address:
19 School Road
Orleans, MA 02653
Lezli Rowell, Provincetown Health
Address:
260 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
David Mason, Sandwich Health
Address:
16 Jan Sebastian Drive
Sandwich, MA 02563
Hillary Greenberg-Lemos, Wellfleet Health
Address:
300 Main Street
Wellfleet, MA 02667
Bruce Murphy, Yarmouth Health
Address:
1146 Route 28
Yarmouth, MA 02664
