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Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines
Florida's Healthy Start initiative was signed into law on June 4, 1991. Healthy Start legislation provides for universal risk screening of all Florida's pregnant women and newborn infants to identify those at risk of poor birth, health and developmental outcomes.
Healthy Start includes targeted support services that address identified risks. The range of Healthy Start services available to pregnant women, infants and children up to age three include:
- Information and referral
- Comprehensive assessment of service needs in light of family and community resources
- Ongoing care coordination and support to assure access to needed services
- Psychosocial, nutritional and smoking cessation counseling
- Childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting support and education
- Home visiting
Healthy Start Facts
A printable fact sheet that summarizes Florida's Healthy Start Program with program and health indicator statistics.
Healthy Start Marketing Toolkit
- Prenatal Risk Screening Forms
1. English
- [pdf; 33 kb]
2. Spanish - [pdf; 70 kb]
3. Creole - [pdf; 33 kb]
- Prenatal Risk Screening Brochures
- English
- [pdf; 376 kb]
- Spanish
- pdf; 376 kb]
- Creole
- [pdf; 376 kb]
- Infant Risk Screening Forms
1.
English
- [pdf; 163 kb]
2.
Spanish
- [pdf; 376 kb]
3.
Creole
- [pdf; 376 kb]
- Infant Risk Screening Brochures
- English
- [pdf; 376 kb]
- Spanish
- [pdf; 165 kb]
- Creole
- [pdf; 33 kb]
Revised and Approved Healthy Start Care Coordination Record Review Forms (ready for use - PDF* or Word)
Prenatal Healthy Start Care Coordination Record Review Form - PDF 84KB
Infant Healthy Start Care Coordination Record Review Form PDF - 33KB Word - 126KB
Healthy Start Care Coordination Record Review Summary Form PDF - 24KB
Medicaid Waiver for Healthy Start Services
A summary of the Medicaid Waiver implemented July 1, 2001 for Healthy Start services reimbursement.
Florida's Healthy Start Annual Report
This annual report provides an overview of information on the year's activities and accomplishments of Florida's Healthy Start programs and services.
Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines and Training Presentations
In 2001, the Maternal and Child health unit worked in collaboration with Healthy Start Coalitions and Healthy Start care coordinators to revise and update the Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines. During the revision process, slide presentations were developed to assist in orientation to the guideline chapters. These revised 2001 Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines are now finalized as the new programmatic standards and guidelines. The
guideline components and accompanying training presentations are available for viewing on this site and can be downloaded for reference and local training activities.
Contact
For more information please contact the Florida Department of Health Maternal & Child Health program
Healthy Start Reports Website
A website providing Healthy Start screening and service reports to county health departments, Healthy Start coalitions, and Department of Health headquarters staff. A username and password are needed to access this site at
http://www.floridacharts.com/hs/hslogon.asp.
Healthy Start Coalitions
The thirty-two Healthy Start Coalitions throughout the state ensure community leadership and planning for a system of care in efforts to promote optimum health outcomes for pregnant women and infants. For more information on Florida's Healthy Start Coalitions, please see the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions website at: http://www.healthystartflorida.com
* Please Note: These documents are in the Portable Document Format (PDF). You may need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
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