Public Health Protection and Safety
Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics
The Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics collects, preserves and protects certificates for all births, deaths, marriages, divorces and stillbirths and issues certified copies. Kentucky's Vital Statistics Law provides for and legalizes the registration of births and deaths. The Vital Statistics Branch records and provides for each person born in Kentucky a means to establish legal identity, age, parentage and nationality. It also makes available a legal document of the date, place and cause of every death occurring in the state and provides a central repository for records of certain other vital events.
Local Health Personnel Branch
The Local Health Personnel (LHP) Branch works to ensure employees in the local health departments (LHD) and applicants receive the highest quality human resource services. The LHP Branch specifically addresses the areas of employment counseling, applicant processing, civil rights, maintaining and updating selection criteria, maintaining employee records, creation of job classifications and salary computation.
Information related to LHD holidays can be found at the Local Health Personnel Branch website.
Local Health Operations Branch
The Local Health Operations (LHO) Branch provides guidance to LHDs. This includes processing requests for security access to the LHD clinical network systems; proper documentation of medical records and management of LHD forms; guidance related to the completion of Patient Encounter Form entries; appropriate medical coding; and third-party billing error resolution for the Kentucky Medicaid Preventive Health Program. LHO also serves as liaison among LHDs and DPH programs to coordinate LHD contract reviews and management of AFM division webpages and the DPH Intranet site.
Budget Branch
The Budget Branch is divided into the State Budget Section and the Local Health Budget Section. The mission of this branch is to provide total financial oversight of the budgets of both the Department for Public Health and the LHDs.
LHD Budget Forms and Documents
KEHP LivingWell Health Department Champs
Links to Local Health Departments
Below are links to LHDs with websites. If you are associated with an LHD and your website is not listed, please send the website address to Jason Boling.
- Allen County Health Department
- Anderson County Health Department
- Ashland-Boyd County Health Department
- Barren River District Health Department - serving Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Metcalfe, Simpson and Warren counties
- Bell County Health Department
- Bourbon County Health Department
- Boyle County Health Department
- Bracken County Health Department
- Breathitt County Health Department
- Breckinridge County Health Department
- Buffalo Trace District - serving Mason and Robertson counties
- Bullitt County Health Department
- Calloway County Health Department
- Christian County Health Department
- Clark County Health Department
- Estill County Health Department
- Floyd County Health Department
- Fleming County Health Department
- Franklin County Health Department
- Garrard County Health Department
- Gateway District Health Department - serving Bath, Menifee, Morgan and Rowan counties
- Graves County Health Department
- Grayson County Health Department
- Green River District Health Department - serving Daviess, Henderson, Hancock, McLean, Ohio, Webster and Union Counties
- Greenup County Health Department
- Hopkins County Health Department
- Jefferson County Health Department
- Jessamine County Health Department
- Johnson County Health Department
- Kentucky River District Health Department - serving Knott, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Owsley, Perry and Wolfe counties
- Knox County Health Department
- Lake Cumberland District Health Department - serving Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, McCreary, Pulaski, Russell, Taylor and Wayne counties
- Laurel County Health Department
- Lawrence County Health Department
- Lewis County Health Department
- Lexington-Fayette County Health Department
- Lincoln Trail District Health Department - serving Hardin, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington counties
- Madison County Health Department
- Magoffin County Health Department
- Marshall County Health Department
- Martin County Health Department
- Mercer County Health Department
- Monroe County Health Department
- Montgomery County Health Department
- Muhlenberg County Health Department
- North Central Health Department - serving Henry, Shelby, Spencer and Trimble counties
- Northern Kentucky Independent Health Department - serving Boone, Campbell, Grant and Kenton counties
- Oldham County Health Department
- Pennyrile District Health Department
- Pike County Health Department
- Powell County Health Department
- Purchase District Health Department - serving Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman and McCracken counties
- Three Rivers District Health Department - serving Carroll, Gallatin, Owen and Pendleton counties
- Todd County Health Department
- Wedco District Health Department - serving Harrison, Nicholas and Scott counties
- Whitley County Health Department
- Woodford County Health Department