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Beacon Health System – Memorial Hospital of South Bend

Beacon Health System will expand existing home visiting programs using a Community Health Worker (CHW) model in collaboration with social workers to provide support and education and reduce barriers to care for pregnant participants in four counties (St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall, and LaPorte). Beacon will also collaborate with partners to ensure standardized care across programs and counties, increase capacity, combine outcome data, and improve integration of existing home-based programs at all community touch points for pregnant participants.

Region: Northern 

Community Health Network Foundation

The Community Health Network Foundation will use a multi-faceted approach to reduce infant mortality rates in the region by improving patient access and convenience of care. CHNF will deliver an empathetic, patient-centered experience to ensure patients have complete wraparound services. They will also strengthen referral networks to improve referral coordination and incentivize cross-service referral utilization. Community Health Network Foundation will also directly address health disparities impacting infant mortality in all programming.

Region: Central  

Franciscan Health Foundation

Franciscan will expand their current home visiting program to address the barriers and needs of the communities served in their regions. Franciscan will provide bilingual, culturally appropriate doula and education services through established partnerships. They will also offer at-home, in-person, or telehealth visits for their home-visiting participants and will improve access to clinical care and mental health services. Franciscan will be expanding its services into more high-need areas of the region with obstetric deserts, including Jasper and Newton counties.

Region: Northwestern and Midwestern 

Good Samaritan Hospital

The Grow Up with Good Samaritan Project will target at-risk pregnant and postpartum participants, including those with substance use disorder to reduce infant mortality. Good Samaritan Hospital will screen participants to ensure their needs are better documented and they can provide adequate resources for those needs. They will also add a Perinatal Peer Recovery Specialist to oversee pregnant and postpartum recovery, implement therapeutic groups for substance use, develop a coalition for maternal and child health, and provide Direct On-Scene Education (DOSE) training for first responders and paramedics.

Region: Central Southwestern and Southwestern

Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana

Funding will expand the current Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) programming in Marion, Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan, and Shelby counties. Goodwill will connect participants to early prenatal care, provide education and support for breastfeeding and smoking cessation, and promote safe sleep, immunizations, and developmental screenings. They will aim to improve the self-sufficiency of caregivers and their family members through continued home visiting support. Goodwill continues to target the high-need population living in poverty and those identified by their healthcare providers as being particularly high-risk.

Region: Central 

Indiana Hospital Association

IHA will use systemized coding to screen and identify social determinants of health needs for patients across the state. This innovative approach will train healthcare workers to better understand health disparities and prioritize health equity. By targeting health disparities through data analysis, providers will have the ability to act on identified health disparities through local and statewide interventions prior to a crisis.

Region: Statewide 

Memorial Hospital - Logansport

Memorial Hospital Logansport will address infant mortality by improving the well-being of caregivers, infants, and children through their home visiting program in Cass, Fulton, Miami, White and Carroll counties. Memorial Hospital Logansport will also utilize current and new partnerships to provide care coordination to ensure patient needs are being met. All existing and new partners will meet on a quarterly basis to share resources and identify gaps in services. Memorial Hospital Logansport will also develop and expand on educational offerings to ensure that pregnant participants or recent parents, families, caregivers, and the community have access to information to reduce infant mortality.

Region: Midwestern 

Union Hospital

Union will utilize its established perinatal navigator program to improve support for pregnant and parenting patients by increasing access to necessary treatment in their region. They will expand current services to Vigo, Clay, and Sullivan counties. Union plans to combat rural issues such as lack of transportation, lack of prenatal and maternal care, substance abuse, and poor health outcomes. Union will increase access to family planning services; identity, screen, and assess risk for pregnant and new caregivers; increase substance use disorder and behavioral health treatments through telehealth; increase collaborative support for their population and improve community understanding of recovery pathways.

Region: Central Southwestern

Indiana Minority Health Coalition

The Indiana Minority Health Coalition will use its Community Doula Services (CDS) to provide doula services to pregnant patients who are at higher risk of infant mortality because of their race, ethnicity, age, or socioeconomic status. The program focuses on serving communities of color in St. Joseph County during the prenatal, birthing, and postpartum continuum to support healthy birth outcomes among program participants. Services that will be provided include early and adequate prenatal care, birthing support and postpartum care, mental health support and tobacco cessation, safe sleep awareness and practices, parent-infant bonding, and breastfeeding.

Region: Northern