Healthy Start
What is it?
Healthy Start Connection is a case management and community-based intervention program funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
Its mission is to strengthen the perinatal care system in Robeson County while empowering
the community to take an active role in improving maternal and infant health outcomes.
To reduce the number of infant deaths and low-birth weight babies in Robeson County
by providing case management services to children for up to eighteen (18) months after
delivery while providing the community with health education classes on nutrition,
self-esteem, HIV/STD, Drugs and Alcohol, preterm birth, breastfeeding and postpartum
depression while maintaining strong linkages with local and State Title V perinatal
services.
September is Infant Mortality Awareness Month and an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of the issue of infant mortality in your community, as well as promote your Healthy Start program locally and nationally.
Benchmarks 2024-2029
Increase the proportion of HS women and child participants with health insurance to 90 percent (reduce uninsured to less than 10 percent).
Increase the proportion of pregnant HS participants who receive prenatal care in the first trimester to 80 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS women participants who receive a postpartum visit to 80 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS women participants who receive a well-woman/preventive visit in the past year to 80 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS infants placed to sleep following safe sleep practices to 80 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS infant participants who were: A. ever breastfed or fed breast milk to 82 percent. B. breastfed or fed pumped breast milk at 6 months to 50 percent.
Increase the proportion of pregnant HS participants that abstain from cigarette smoking, or using any tobacco products, to 90 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS child participants who receive the last age-appropriate recommended well-child visit based on the AAP schedule to 90 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS women participants who receive depression screening to 90 percent; of those who screen positive for depression, increase the proportion who receive referral to 95 percent.
Increase the proportion of HS women participants who receive interpersonal violence (IPV) screening to 90 percent; of those who screen positive for IPV, increase the proportion who receive referral to 95 percent.
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