Office Location
345 6th Street, Suite 300
Bremerton, WA 98337
(360) 337-5235
 
Tobacco Quit Line
1-800-QUIT-NOW
Suicide Help Line
(800) 273-8255
Public Health
Emergency Info. Line

(877) 256-4859
Emergency After Hours Pager Number
(360) 415-2005
File a Complaint
(360) 337-5235



FILE a complaint

The Kitsap County Health District proudly serves the members of our community by responding to complaints concerning real or potential public health concerns.

If you would like to file a complaint over the phone please call (360) 337-5235
For Tobacco complaints please call (360) 337-5230


Public Health Complaints typically fall under 2 broad categories
Environmental Health or Community Health
The Environmental and Community Health Divisions are defined further down the page.
  • Click Here to file a complaint regarding an Environmental Health issue or concern.
  • Click Here to file a complaint regarding a Community Health issue or concern.
 
Environmental Health Division

Drinking Water:
Protects drinking water supplies and enforces and monitors laws regulating public and private water supplies.

Food Safety:
Lowers the incidence of foodborne illness through inspection, education, enforcement, epidemiological investigation and plan review of retail food service establishments.
Living Environment:
Protects and promotes the health and safety of Kitsap County residents by addressing environmental concerns other than food, water, sewage, solid/hazardous waste or water quality.
Onsite Sewage:
Protects public health from the adverse effects of failing on-site sewage systems by reducing or limiting the impact of on-site sewage disposal on drinking, ground, and surface waters, as well as reducing the risk of the public's exposure to untreated on-site sewage.
Solid & Hazardous Waste:
Ensures the safe handling of solid and hazardous wastes in accordance with Federal, State and local regulations and plans with a focus on pollution prevention, waste minimization, reuse and recycling.
Pollution Identification and Correction, Water Quality & Shellfish:
Protects the public health from waterborne illness associated with failing on-site sewage systems, sewage spills from public sewage treatment systems, inadequate animal waste management, inadequate marina sewage control, blue-green algae blooms in our lakes, paralytic shellfish poison, and other water quality related hazards.

Community Health Division
parent child health Program: Promotes the health and well being of families in their childbearing years through professional home visits. Provides maternity support services, childcare consultations, as well as education and support regarding all aspects of parenting, child growth and development, and child health. Also promotes conditions in which children with special health or developmental needs can achieve the healthiest life possible and develop to their fullest potential.

Clinical Services program:
Works to protect and preserve the health and safety of Kitsap County residents from communicable disease through ongoing disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, implementation of control measures and education.
Provides confidential services for family planning and sexually transmitted disease (STD) counseling and testing.

 
HIV/AIDS Program:
Provides HIV/AIDS prevention, counseling and testing, case management/care and syringe exchange services in Kitsap County.
Health Promotion:
Develops and implements culturally competent educational out-reach programs to positively influence health behavior and health choices among Kitsap County residents. The Health Promotion program also works towards Tobacco prevention in our community and performs Tobacco compliance checks at local businesses.
juvenile detention health care program:
Provides non-emergent and preventive health care for detainees at the Juvenile Detention Facility.
 
program contacts
Environmental Health
Keith Grellner
Director Environmental Health
(360) 337-5284
 
John Kiess
Program Manager
Drinking Water

(360) 337-5290
 

Bonnie Petek
Program Manager
Food & Living Environment
(360) 337-4701

 
Dean Abbott
Program Manager
Onsite Sewage Systems
(360) 337-5274
 
Janet Brower
Program Manager
Solid & Hazardous Waste
(360) 337-5672
 
Stuart Whitford
Program Manager
Pollution Identification Control
(360) 337-5674
 
Community Health

Suzanne Plemmons, RN, MSN
Director CommunityHealth
(360) 337-5263

 
Sandra Morales, RN, MSN
Program Manager
Parent Child Health
(360) 337-4822
 
Kerry Dobbelaere, PA
Program Manager
Clinical Services & HIV/AIDS
(360) 337-5238
 
Cris Craig, MBA
Program Manager
Health Promotion
(360) 337-5224
 
Ardelle Rein
Registered Nurse
Juvenile Detention Health Care
(360) 337-5436