Improving Healthy Birth Weights

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Garrett County Health Department’s Early Care Programs System of Care provides free voluntary home visitation services to families and children prenatally and up to age 5. Additionally, the program offers a free “Warm Line” service, which is a phone number families can call to speak to a Registered Nurse to ask questions about their family/health concerns . The program focus includes babies born healthy and healthy children and has set goals of increasing healthy birth weights and babies born full term. Program services are provided to empower parents to give their children the best beginning in life!

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Health Improvement Strategy

Improving Healthy Birth Weights

https://mygarrettcounty.com/groups/improving-health-birth-weights/

Goal:

To help mothers enrolled in the program during pregnancy to deliver a baby that weighs 5.5 pounds or more.

Strategy Description:

1. Mothers enrolled prenatally in Healthy Families home visiting will receive health promotion and education during pregnancy on topics to promote a healthy pregnancy to include prevention of preterm labor, warning signs during pregnancy, nutrition, and babies born healthy. 2. Mothers enrolled prenatally in Healthy Families home visiting will be linked to a primary care provider to receive early and consistent prental care. 3. Mothers enrolled prentally in Healthy Families home visiting will be linked to medical insurance during and after pregnancy. 4. Mothers enrolled prenatall in Healthy Families home visiting will be sreened for emotional wellness. 5. Mothers enrolled prenatall in Healthy Families home visiting will receive Healthy Moms/Healthy Babies information. 6. Mothers enrolled prenatally in Healthy Families home visiting will receive education on good oral hygiene to prevent preterm labor. 7. Mothers enrolled prenatally in Healthy Families home visiting will be linked to nutritional resources (WIC, SNAP, food bank, ect.). 8. Mothers enrolled prenatally in Healthy Families home visiting will receive education on substance free pregnancy. 9.  Early Care Program makes contact with pregnant women throughout the county and offers education on healthy pregnancy and full- term delivery.    

Level of Change:

Programs

Primary Focus Area:

Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health

Data Category Tag:

GCHD Early Care Programs

Strategic Planning Alignment:

Estimated Implementation Date:

2017-07-01

Estimated Completion Date:

2022-06-30

Estimated Ease of Implementation:

Very Easy

Estimated Cost of Implementation:

Very Low

Potential Community Benefit:

Very High

Health Equity:

Research:

Babies born with low birth weights (below 2,500 grams or below 5.5 pounds): This is one of the 39 measures from The SHIP and is located under the Focus Area of Healthy Beginnings. Current Data 2014→8.6% below healthy birth weight- Maryland out of 73,588 births 2014→10.6% below healthy birth weight- Garrett County out of 284 births 2015→ 8.6% below healthy birth weight- Maryland out of 73,544 births 2015→ 8.2% below healthy birth weight- Garrett County out of 294 births (Data Source: https://health.maryland.gov - Maryland Annual Vital Statistics 2014 and 2015 Annual Reports; and https://healthy.maryland.gov/SHIP) Goal (SHIP) less than 8% of babies will be born below healthy birth weights (less than 2,500 grams or less than 5.5 pounds) (Data Source: https://healthy.maryland.gov/SHIP) Healthy People 2020 Goal less than 7.8% of babies will be born below healthy birth weights (less than 2,500 grams of less than 5.5 pounds) (Data Source: https://health.maryland.gov/SHIP) Number of Births Per Year in Garrett County, Maryland Current Data CY 2016- 311 Births CY 2015- 294 Births CY 2014- 284 Biths (Data Source: https://health.maryland.gov)

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