Prenatal Care Expansion a No Brainer for Undocumented Patients
CAWEM-Plus program has cost benefits for state, community and patients
prenatal care
Advocates Celebrate Prenatal Care Expansion
Funding expansion of the Citizen Alien Waived Emergent Medical program was the result of a 10-year effort
Curry County Focuses on Low Birth Weight Babies
A program run jointly by the Curry County Health Department and AllCare Health Plans, Inc., will work with pregnant women on substance abuse counseling and nutritional assistance
July 27, 2012 -- The Curry County Public Health Department is trying to make a difference in improving the health of newborn babies. Statewide, of the 45,596 babies born, approximately 6.3 percent had a low birth weight. Although those numbers were considerably lower in Curry County -- only seven out of the 180 babies born that year had a low birth weight – Jan Kaplan, director of Curry County Public Health, believes that figure is still too high. “We want to keep those trends where they are, but it can always be improved.”
