The Public Health Department is committed to providing comprehensive data and reports to help monitor and improve the health and well-being of our community. Through regular health assessments, strategic plans, communicable disease reports, and innovative surveillance programs like wastewater monitoring, we aim to offer valuable insights that support public health decision-making.
- CONTACT INFORMATION
- 806-378-6300
- 806-378-6306
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Office Hours:
Monday – Thursday
7:30 am – 6:00 pm -
Main Office:
1000 Martin Rd
Amarillo, TX 79107 -
Clinic:
850 Martin Rd
Amarillo, TX 79107
Community Data - details
Explore the resources below, including public health alerts, communicable disease reports, and surveillance data for respiratory illnesses, to stay informed about the health status of our community and ongoing public health initiatives.
Public Health Alerts & Quick Links
Public Health assessments, plans, and reports
Public Health Data
Discover valuable insights to community public health assessments, plans, and reports to help monitor and improve the overall health of our community.
Wastewater surveillance dashboard
WastewaterSCAN is a national effort to spread a leading approach for monitoring diseases through municipal wastewater systems to inform public health responses locally and nationally.
Public Health Respiratory Data
View the most current Respiratory Report for the Amarillo Area by visiting the Provider Reporting Dashboard online.
Wastewater Surveillance
WastewaterSCAN is a national effort to spread a leading approach for monitoring diseases through municipal wastewater systems to inform public health responses locally and nationally.
- Wastewater surveillance will only capture those in the city limits of Amarillo.
- Community-level wastewater surveillance at a treatment plant also will not capture communities or facilities served by decentralized systems, such as septic systems, prisons, universities, or hospitals, that treat their waste.
- Samples will be collected at the City of Amarillo River Road Wastewater Treatment Plant and Hollywood Road Wastewater Treatment Plant three times a week.
- Currently no cost to communities
- Our wastewater surveillance program will monitor for:
- SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
- Influenza (Flu)
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
- Mpox (previously known as monkeypox)
- Norovirus