FDOH-Escambia Best People

FDOH-Escambia employ a wide range of public health professionals, including nurses, physicians, dietitians, epidemiologists, geologists, and planners as well as support professionals, such as accountants, IT professionals, customer service representatives, training, personnel staff, and communications professionals. FDOH-Escambia also provides a wide variety of internship opportunities in various fields.

6 Interns Trained in Key Areas: Clinical Nursing, Communicable Diseases, Health Education, Infectious Disease, and Nutrition.

Participating Schools: Be Well Solutions, CDC’s Public Health Associate Program, Keiser University, Pensacola State College, University of South Alabama, and the University of West Florida.

176 EMPLOYEES

97% FULL TIME

77% WOMEN

Environmental Health participate in Wear Blue Day to show support for Men’s Health on June 18, 2021.

Alyssa Hudson participating in blood drive on July 16, 2021.

FDOH-Escambia Employees on Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day to promote Safe Boating on May 21, 2021.

Employee Wellness

One of the many ways our employees live the Department mission to protect, promote, and improve health is by participating in employee wellness activities. A well-designed employee wellness program can have many benefits, such as increased productivity and morale, and decreased absenteeism. FDOH- Escambia offers quarterly wellness challenges to encourage employees to engage in healthy behaviors, like eating healthy during the holidays or meeting physical activity goals.

Employee Wellness Highlights

Escambia Spirit Blog

-The employee blog was relaunched with new content.

-Posts are published daily with various themes including Motivational Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays

25 Days of Wellness

-The entire health department banded together to take care of everyone’s mental and physical well-being.

-Employees were given 25 challenges to complete over 25 days to encourage wellness and health while at work during the month of December.

-In total, 14 employees participated in this challenge.

Stronger Body, Stronger Mind!

-From July to September, divisions competed against each other each week to increase activity minutes.

-The boards featured a new, beginner level workout to use. In the end, EH pulled together and defeated the other divisions.

What’s the Secret?

-For National Diabetes Month, the board featured two sections about managing diabetes, aiming to get employees to normalize regular exercise and dissecting food labels.

-With displays of food labels that had hidden sugars, multiple employees earned a STAR by writing down the name of sugars that hide in ingredient lists of products.