The Solution
Empower Health USA & Partners
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies program:
•Reduces abortions*
•Reduces miscarriages, still births, pre-term/low-birth-weight births*
•Reduces children impacted by drugs and alcohol including*
•Physical and neurological damage from drugs/alcohol;
•Behavioral health/attention damage from drugs/alcohol;
•Learning and control issues affecting our education system;
•Burdens in the foster care system; and
•Long-term effect in the juvenile and later adult justice system
•Saves billions of dollars in short-term and long-term costs
*By enabling women to avoid unintended pregnancies and have a healthy baby at the right time
Total Wellness Recovery Program
Providing a path for At-Risk Medicaid Women to have a healthy baby when the time is right​
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The goal of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB) is to increase access to women’s healthcare services through the utilization of services to give a mother the ability to choose to have a healthy baby and to improve healthy short and long-term outcomes for these women and their newborns.
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The HMHB Program will show that state and federal agencies can achieve significant cost avoidance and realize better outcomes for at-risk Medicaid women by preventing unintended, drug/opioid and alcohol pregnancies within a Total Wellness Recovery Program.
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The HMHB program will demonstrate effective outcomes to state and federal governments, leading into a statewide program for this at-risk population.
Key Categories for Total Wellness
The HMHB Program will provide a unique range of services for each woman that include the following:
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Education on a range of topics
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Annual check-ups that include access to preventative care – physical (hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, etc.), breast & cervical screening, etc.
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Mental Health assessment, evaluation, treatment
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Address Social Determinants of Health
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Focused Rehab Treatment followed by a continuum of other necessary services for total wellness care