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Prenatal Summit Executive Summary "Expediting Access to Care for Pregnant Women"

Click here for a copy of the Prenatal Summit Executive Summary of the study on Expediting Access to Care for Pregnant Women. Click here to access a blog to discuss your ideas about expediting access to care for pregnant women. We will post the complete study as soon as it becomes available.

Click these links below for information on:

Antiretroviral  Pregnancy Registry
Chantrix and pregnant or nursing women
Chapter 64D-3 Florida Administrative Code (Notifiable Disease Reporting) Rewrite
Disaster Fact Sheet on Infant Nutrition
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Florida Tobacco Quit-For-Life Free Cessation Service
Food Safety for Moms-to-Be Educational Materials from the U.S. FDA
Healthy Start Prenatal and Postnatal Screening Process
Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines
HIV/AIDS Magazine for Health Care Professionals - The Source
HIV/AIDS National Clinicians' Consultation Center
HIV/AIDS Perinatal Guidelines for the use of Antiretroviral Drugs in pregnant- HIV infected women updated 11/2/07
HIV/AIDS Perinatal Serveillence Procedures
Hippa Act Information
Immunization Schedule for Children 0-18 for 2008
Medical Information and Professional Development - Medscape
Medical Provider Survey
Nutrition
Perinatal Depression Booklet Published by HRSA
Prenatal Medicaid Application
Prenatal Medicaid - Tips for Navigating the Prenatal Medicaid System

Prenatal Medicaid - How to Help Women Apply
Prenatal Vitamins May Protect Against Childhood Cancer
Pre-teen Vaccination Campaign - CDC
Safe Haven for Newborns
Smoke Free Homes and Cars Program from the EPA (brochures)

Surgeon General's Report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke
Upcoming Trainings, Seminars, and Webcasts for Doctors and Health Care Professionals

Dr. Pam Carbiener talks about the Healthy Start Screen . . . .

 

Dear Colleagues:

Before joining the board of the Healthy Start Coalition of Volusia and Flagler Counties, I vaguely understood that its mission was to improve the health of pregnant women in our community, ultimately improving the outcome for their children and families. I knew that prenatal screens existed but I did not consider these screens necessary for many of my patients. I have learned that the “social screening” in my office misses many women in need of available services.

Healthy Start receives state funds that require a high degree of accountability. Simply offering the screen is not enough. The key is to offer the screen in a manner that encourages consent. Each woman needs to know that by answering the questions on the screen, she helps to secure funding for programs that may help other mothers and infants.

Please have your office manager contact Cher Philio, Outreach Coordinator at 386.323.0000 or cher.philio@halifax.org and receive effective ideas for presenting screens within your practice. Show your support for this program by encouraging screening by your employees, and provide the opportunity and tools for them to do so. Become familiar with the literature available to inform your staff and patients. And, please encourage your patients to also fill out the infant screening that is offered at delivering hospitals.

Cher Philio

Your time and effort is sincerely appreciated. Please call me if you have questions or if you have any ideas or insight to increase Healthy Start’s success.

Respectfully,

Pam Carbiener, MD FACOG

 

 

 

 

 

Cher Philio ,
Healthy Start Outreach Coordinator
Click here for more information about Cher.

 

Florida Tobacco Quit-For-Life Counseling Program Quit For Life

The Florida Tobacco Quit-For-Life Line is a free cessation service offering individualized counseling and support to any Florida resident who is ready to quit. The Quit-For-Life Line can provide the counseling component of tobacco dependence treatment without added time or costs to health care providers or insurers.

Medical Information and Professional Development - Medscape

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Medical Provider Survey

The goal of Healthy Start is to reduce infant mortality, increase access to maternal and child health care and support services and improve the health and developmental outcomes of children in our community. This initiative includes ongoing collection and assessment of information regarding the services available to the maternal and child populations. We are asking maternal and child health care providers in Flagler and Volusia counties to please take a few minutes to complete the survey below so that we can better assess what medical services are currently available to our target population. Thank you in advance for helping us gather this data.

Medical Provider Survey (pdf file) click here to download free pdf reader

 

HIPPA Act Information

HIPPA Act allows release of protected health information, without specific client consent, for public health investigations. Click the letters below for HIPPA Act information from the Florida Department of Health.

HIPPA Letter regarding FIMR (Fetal Infant Mortality Review)
HIPPA Letter regarding PAMR (Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review)
HIPPA Letter regarding MomCare - Prenatal choice counseling and care management women who are eligible for Medicaid through the Sixth Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (SOBRA)


Surgeon General's Report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke

Those of you interested in reading The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General (including the full report, the executive summary, or the consumer-oriented publication}. click here.

A Safe Haven for Newborns

Safe Haven provides an alternative to a frightened girl/woman, who, in a moment of desperation, may do something drastic, destroying two lives, hers and her babies.

There is now a Florida Law which allows a mother/ father an alternative to infant abandonment with their confidentiality protected. Parents may call the Safe Haven 24-hour, multi-lingual, confidential hotline at 1-877-767-2229. The result will be:

- A child’s life is saved.
- A mother/father is saved from a lifetime of guilt and criminal prosecution.
- The hopes and dreams of parents waiting to adopt are fulfilled.

Many Hospitals and all staffed 24/7 Fire and Emergency Medical Service stations have signs with the Safe Haven logo and helpline # posted outside of their facility. For more information, visit the Safe Haven website. For a brochures in English, Spanish and Creole, click here. To contact Save Haven for Newborns, call 305-882-1304 Ext. 103, or email safehaven@asafehavenfornewborns.com

Nutrition

Click here to find: vegetable consumption surveillance data; information on various 5 A Day pilot programs; internet and legislative resources; more about the 5 A Day program; and help encouraging others to eat a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables.

National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center

The National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC) is a component of the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) program funded by the Ryan White CARE Act, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Click here to visit the web site. See services offered below:

Warmline - National HIV telephone consultation service offers healthcare providers expert clinical consultation on antiretroviral treatment options, drug interactions and toxicity, resistance testing, prophylaxis and management of opportunistic infections, and primary care of persons with HIV/AIDS. 1-800-933-3413, Monday-Friday, 8 am to 8 pm EST, Voicemail 24 hours a day - 7 days a week.

Perinatal Hotline - National perinatal HIV consultation and referral service provides 24-hour advice from HIV experts on indications and interpretations of HIV testing as well as consultation on treating HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants. 1-888-448-8765, 24 hours a day - 7 days a week.

PEPline - National clinicians' post-exposure prophylaxis hotline offers healthcare providers around-the-clock advice on managing occupational exposures to HIV, and hepatitis B and C. 1-888-448-4911, 24 hours a day - 7 days a week.