Maternal Child Health Program

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Overview

At HHC Health and Home Care our Maternal Child Health Program offers prenatal and postpartum care to mothers and their children with special needs.

Admission/Eligibility

  For admission to the program the patient must:
   
• Be pregnant or postpartum, breast feeding and/or in need of specialized
assessment, treatment or education;
• Be under the care of a physician;
• Reside in Manhattan, Queens or the Bronx;
• Be motivated to receive home care and willing to participate in their plan of care.

Services

  To promote coordinated, effective care, HHC Health and Home Care employs a team approach. Services provided by the team may include:
   
• Antepartum assessment and teaching related to pre-term labor, gestational diabetes, hyperemesis or preeclampsia;
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Specialized services for mothers with medical/surgical complications, post-cesarean wound care, complex social situations, or who require assistance with parenting skills.

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Home visiting program for mothers that are exclusively breastfeeding, currently residing in Bronx and Queens:

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All Breastfeeding mothers that are having difficulties.

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High risk infant care targeted at those suffering from drug exposure, birth trauma, congenital anomalies, prematurity, HIV exposure, or failure to thrive;

• Extended care for chronically ill children specializing in:
   

-Respiratory care for children with asthma, cyctic fibrosis bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and allergic airways;

-Instruction and monitoring of children with diabetes mellitus;
-Early intervention rehabilitation services.
 
  The program is designed to:
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Improve antepartum maternal health status with the goal of improving short-to-long term infant health status;

 

 Prevent/treat postpartum medical complications;
• Educate new parents in parenting and child-care skills;
• Assist in adjustment to altered family structure postpartum.