Healthcare

• Bronx Healthy Start Partnership

The Bronx Healthy Start program works to ensure that expecting and postpartum moms and babies up to the age of two are healthy, safe and thriving. Healthy Start Program uses case management as the core service connecting mothers and their families to free and confidential screening and referral to medical services, voluntary home visitation and resources. The goal of the program is to improve birth outcomes and reduce infant and maternal morbidity and mortality. As a federally-funded program, Healthy Start also seeks to preserve continuity of care and reduce disparities for women, children and families.

Participants in the Bronx Healthy Start Program are directly connected to a wide variety of services, including:

• Access to prenatal and postpartum care

• Medical home for well women visits

• Access to well-baby visits and childhood immunizations

• Assistance with Health insurance enrollment

• Referrals to WIC services & SNAP

• Family planning assistance and interconception care

• Parenting skills and Centering Pregnancy & Centering Parents

• Breastfeeding

• Safe Sleep and Cribs for baby

• Links to local resources for jobs, child care, counseling and education

For more information visit:

https://einsteinmed.edu/departments/family-social-medicine/community-health/bronx-healthy-start/