Escambia County Healty Start Coalition

Say Yes to Screening

A Healthy Start Screening is a confidential form that you fill out in your doctor’s office or hospital that could give you access to free services to help you have and keep a healthy baby. Eligibility is based on those assessments, not on financial factors. Say YES and a Healthy Start nurse will contact you.

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MomCare-SIS

The SOBRA (Sixth Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) Choice Counseling Program is one component of a special waiver authorized by the federal government in June of 2001.

This program, now known as MomCare was developed through a partnership of the Florida Healthy Start Coalitions, the Florida Department of Health, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Healthy Start Success Stories

Many mothers in Florida have over come great obstacles to create the best outcome for their pregnancy and infants. Healthy Start is making the difference in the lives of women one story at a time. Click for story

How Healthy Start Works

Healthy Start Coalitions are non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the health of pregnant women and babies in a community.

The state's 33 Coalitions are partnerships made up of local public and private medical professionals, hospitals, schools, charities, social services agencies, the United Way, the March of Dimes and individuals. Coalition members will work together to identify and resolve local health problems that affect pregnant women and their families

Basinet

BASINET (Baby Abstracting System and Information NETwork) is a web-based project management system for FIMR (Fetal Infant Mortality Review) developed by the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions, Inc. in partnership with GO BEYOND LLC.

BASINET contains specific case records, documentation regarding maternal interviews on pertinent cases, case deliberations and reviews, specific and user-defined reports, DCF and Healthy Start Risk Assessment Score requests, FIMR recommendations, a directory of all FIMR projects in the state and a medical terminology dictionary.

The Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions, Inc. is working to fight infant mortality in every way possible.

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