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Health Check
Coordination__________________________________________
The coordinator,
working out of the Brunswick County Health Department,
promotes the importance of regular preventive care to
parents of children birth to age five and provides
information on free health insurance for children.
Coordinator provides information regarding health services
such as hearing and vision screenings, dental services and
comprehensive health checkups, immunizations and treatment
services for children. The coordinator also provides
outreach workshops to parents, providers and other community
groups.
Tammy Hanson
253-2340
THanson@brunsco.net
Early
Intervention and Child Health
Outreach ___________________________
Specialist works with the community, parents, child care
providers and medical providers to provide information on
early intervention services, well child visits and
developmental screenings as well as links to services.
This program promotes the importance of regular preventive
care to parents of children birth to age five. The
specialist provides workshops to parents, providers and other community groups.
Karen
Fleischhauer, R.N.
754-3166
KFleischhauer@smartstartbrunswick.org
Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) Project______________
This pilot
grant project
is an initiative to improve the quality of child
development services in primary care medical practices.
This initiative provides training and on-site technical
assistance to physicians and their staff to help them
integrate developmental screenings and referrals into
designated well child visits. The goal of this projects is
to increase the number of children ages birth to five that
receive high quality developmental screenings in the context
of a medical home, identify children with developmental or
behavioral concerns, and make referrals to early
intervention and other appropriate community resources.
Karen
Fleischhauer, R.N.
754-3166
KFleischhauer@smartstartbrunswick.org
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