What is Healthy Start & Healthy Families?
Healthy Start & Healthy Families provides free health insurance for children, pregnant women, and families of low and moderate-income. Pregnant women, children, and families enrolled in Healthy Start & Healthy Families receive care through a Managed Care Plan (MCP). The MCP provides a number of health services including hospital or acute illness care, well-child checkups, dental care, eyeglasses, prescribed medicine and immunizations. At present, there are three Managed Care Plans in Seneca County. Families may chose their MCP based on their own priorities for convenient location, hospitals, selection of doctors, etc. To discover health problems, the Healthchek program covers eight check-ups in the first two years of life and annual check-ups thereafter to it’s eligible members. Early and continual prenatal care plays an important role in positive pregnancy results and the birth of a healthy baby. The Pregnancy Related Services (PRS) program was developed to improve and maintain the he
