| Southeast Home Health
provides prenatal home visitation. |
| Expecting your first baby? Building
Blocks is a free prenatal early childhood home
visitation service offered through the Missouri
Department of Health to qualifying mothers.
Southeast Missouri Hospital's Building Blocks
program, operated through the Hospital's Home
Care Services, was one of two sites selected to
implement the grant-funded program in 2000.
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Click here to
read two families
stories
with Building Blocks |
| An additional $160,000 awarded in 2002 to Building
Blocks will allow Southeast to expand the prenatal
and early childhood nurse home visitation program
to serve an additional 50 clients, bringing to
100 the number of individuals enrolled in the program.
The federal grant was awarded through Building
Blocks of Missouri. |
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Visiting nurses from Southeast Home Health
will help mothers ...
- make healthy choices about diet and pregnancy
- prepare for labor and delivery
- make the best decisions on feeding the baby
- making parenting easier with helpful hints
- learn about baby's growth and development
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How is it done?
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Weekly visits by a specially-trained registered
nurse during the first month and every other week
until delivery. Weekly visits follow during the
first six weeks after delivery, and every other
week until the baby is 21 months. There are monthly
visits until the child turns 2. |
Who may qualify?
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Women with little or no income who are first time
mothers and are less than 28 weeks pregnant. Women
must live in the following Missouri counties: Bollinger,
Cape Girardeau, Perry, Scott, Stoddard, and parts
of Mississippi, New Madrid, Ste. Genevieve, St.
Francois, Madison, Wayne or Dunklin. |
What is the cost?
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There is no cost to qualified clients. Call for
information: 573-335-1033 or toll-free 1-888-966-5973 |
