Having heart - and helping out - in the heartland
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People Caring for People received a Nova Award for its efforts in preventing child abuse and neglect in Beatrice, Nebraska. The consortium was created by Blue Valley Community Action, the Family Resource Center, and Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center, who worked together to ensure that all women who come to Beatrice Hospital to give birth have received prenatal care. Care was organized in the form of visits to all new mothers in the area, support groups for young mothers, and face-to-face assessments for mothers-in-need.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1996
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A village to tame a city's mean streets
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A community effort to prevent infant mortality in Detroit, MI, has been recognized with a Nova Award. Hutzel Hospital in junction with police, fire, and other public agencies as well as stores, banks, restaurants and others joined together to create an education center for impoverished parents called Family Road. The center is set up like a village and has already educated 7,000 visitors since 1995 about home safety and parenting, the welfare system, and nutrition. It also gives job training and substance abuse referrals.
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Year: 1996
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When free-form means free to create
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The combined efforts of Aiken Regional Medical Centers, the county health department, city officials, and others, to reduce infant mortality rates in Aiken County, SC, have been recognized with a Nova Award. A 70-person task force started reviews of infant deaths, remodeled prenatal facilities, created an education program lead by beat police to get women to seek prenatal care, and started an emergency pregnancy hotline. The effort reduced infant deaths from 12.1 per thousand births to 7.2 per thousand.
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