Healthy Start

Hours

Monday: 8:00am-4:30pm

Tuesday: 8:00am-4:30pm

Wednesday: 8:00am-4:30pm

Thursday: 8:00am-4:30pm

Friday: 8:00am-4:30pm

Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

Contact

         (906) 248-5527

The Bay Mills Healthy Start program offers services for mothers and newborns throughout the pregnancy up to five years.

Services

Maternal Infant Health

Serves prenatal to age 1 year

  • Provides home visitation and support care for pregnant woman and infants beginning during pregnancy, through birth, and up to age 1

  • Services are intended to supplement regular prenatal/ infant care

  • Focus on promoting healthy pregnancies

  • Focus on positive birth outcomes

  • Promote healthy infant growth and development

  • Improves maternal and infant healthcare utilization and healthy outcomes

Healthy Start

Prenatal to age 2 years

  • Focus on health during pregnancy, healthy newborn, and healthy mothers.

  • Focus on sustaining women's positive health

  • Promote positive pregnancy outcomes

  • Focus on healthy infant survival

Key Outcomes Tracked

  • Birth outcomes

  • Connection to services

  • Medical home and family well-being from prenatal up to age two

 

Family Home Visiting

Serves ages 2 to 5 years

  • Added focus on parenting knowledge, involvement, cognitive, social, and emotional development of children.

  • Focus on optimal child development

  • Focus on family stability

Key Outcomes Tracked

  • Parenting skill gains

  • Social, emotional, and cognitive development milestones for infants and children

 

This program integrates additional data into existing forms, has additional assessments for children up to age 5, offers peer support and tools to monitor fidelity of implementation.