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| HealthConnect on Wheels
Don't Miss the Bus!
Route Schedule (pdf)
May 2008 Updated 5/8/08 Request HealthConnect on Wheels
To request a visit from HealthConnect on Wheels, download this form, fill it out, and fax it to 305-355-2227 Immunization Sites
View List
Oral Health Care Providers in Miami-Dade County
Download PDF (Courtesy of Community Voices Miami)
Special Immunization Program:
Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination Campaign Schedule
Vaccines are free for children 6-months to 18 years old and adults 65 and older. (Courtesy of Miami-Dade County Health Department)
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| What is HealthConnect?
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|  | HealthConnect is a comprehensive, three-tier, quality-driven health initiative, spearheaded by The Children’s Trust, with the goal of having the healthiest children possible in Miami-Dade County. HealthConnect:
- Connects children and families to needed services before health conditions require a trip to the emergency room.
- Provides information and support through home visitations to all new and teen mothers from the prenatal period through the early years.
- Uses multidisciplinary health teams in every school to provide needed health and mental health services.
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 National Model Matrix
Health Connect Logic Models
Health Connect Evaluation Recommendations |
| HealthConnect In Our Schools
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|  | Each school will have a team of professionals including a nurse or nurse practitioner, a social worker and two health aides. Each team will serve two schools and will offer physical, mental and behavioral health services.
Unique to this component is a strategic financial partnership with Miami-Dade Public Schools and the Miami-Dade County Health Department, to bring quality health services to every school in Miami-Dade County by 2011.
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| Benefits of HealthConnect In Our Schools:
- A coordinated level of school-based healthcare at every school
- Expanded health screenings and assessments with access to follow-up care
- Mental and behavioral health services to identify and solve student health and educational issues
- Nutrition and health counseling
- Better access to a regular primary-care physician
- Primary health services for uninsured students with no other options or access to health care
- Emergency first aid/CPR
- Chronic disease management
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Summary of the Formative Evaluation of Phase 1 of HealthConnect in Our Schools (PowerPoint)
SHC Business Plan
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools
- Comprehensive Health Services
- School Health Medical Advisory Committee |
| HealthConnect In Our Community
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|  | Community health workers, strategically located throughout Miami-Dade County, work neighborhood-by-neighborhood to help children and families navigate the complicated route to quality health care and services.
Community health workers will work closely with health navigators. Navigators are trained to enroll children and families into healthcare
funding sources. Together, they collaborate to increase access to primary-care physicians, health insurance and other health services, regardless of race, ethnicity, origin of birth/nationality, immigration status or income.
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| Benefits of HealthConnect In Our Community:
- More access to health insurance
- More access to primary care providers and health services
- Better health awareness and education
- Decrease use of hospital emergency rooms for non-emergency care
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| HealthConnect In The Early Years
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|  | Family coaches help guide expectant teens and first-time moms, infants and toddlers to the quality health care they require. Offering free pre- and post-natal home visits, family coaches ensure children and families have the best possible health outcomes.
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Benefits of HealthConnect In The Early Years:
- Identification and treatment of post-partum depression
- Breast-feeding education
- Newborn and infant behavior and development education
- Infant and toddler nutrition and injury prevention
- Parenting skills and family planning
- Health and development screenings
- Access to health services and insurance providers
- HIV/AIDS awareness and education
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| Agencies funded by The Trust for HealthConnect
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| - Children's Psychiatric Center
- Citrus Health Network
- Community Health of South Dade
- Economic Opportunity Family Health Center
- Haitian Neighborhood Resource Center - Sant La, Inc.
- Health Choice Network
- Helen B. Bentley Family Health Center
- Human Services Coalition
- Miami Children's Hospital
- Public Health Trust - Jackson Help System
- University of Miami / John T. McDonald Health Initiative
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Download Brochures
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| Please Note: Most of the documents listed in this section are available in PDF (Portable Document Format), downloadable by clicking the titles. Some of these files are large and make take a few minutes to download. In order to open PDFs you'll need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader application. Use the provided link to get the latest version.
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