Services:

• Pregnancy Tests         
• Prenatal Care
• Prenatal Education; on pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and newborn care
• Prenatal and Postpartum Home Visits by Registered Nurses
• Interpreters On-site
• Referrals to Community Resources

Hours:

• Open Monday-Friday 8am-5pm (Pregnancy testing is available by walk-in, no appointment required.)
• Monday 8am-Noon
• Tuesday 1pm-5pm
• Thursday 8am-5pm
• Friday 1pm-5pm

Assistance for low-income at-risk uninsured and under-insured women in accessing prenatal and postpartum medical services in partnership with Siouxland Medical Education Foundation.

In addition to being a long-time provider of maternal health care, the program is an integral part of efforts to identify and address community maternal and infant health needs and develop appropriate resources and policies.

Services provided to program participants include:

• flexible scheduling
• transportation
• interpreter services
• consistent client contact and follow-up home visits
• health and parenting education on topics such as SIDS prevention and child development
• psychosocial counseling
• dental assessment, referral and prevention consultation
• nutrition assessment, education, and counseling
• parenting and parent preparation classes
• pregnancy testing and birth control counseling and referral
• referrals to community resources
• preventative health education services including smoking cessation counseling and support
• Pregnancy Tests
• Prenatal Care
• Prenatal Education on pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and newborn care
• Prenatal and Postpartum Home Visits by registered nurses
• Interpreters on-sight
• Referrals to community resources

Open M-F 8-5: Pregnancy testing is available by walk-in, no appointment needed.
Monday 8-12, Tuesday 1-5, Thursday 8-5, and Friday 1-5

Health Education

Health outreach initiatives focus on providing information to the general public through health fairs, presentations, classes, or school sponsored activities. Topics include teen pregnancy, abstinence education, breastfeeding, and parenting skills. Additional programming is available for multicultural participants, including comprehensive prenatal classes for Spanish-speaking families.

The Crittenton Center nursing staff is available to other agency programs for education, assessment and directives.

First Aid, CPR, and Medication Manager classes are offered both internally and externally. An on-call nurse is available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to provide assistance with illnesses, medically related emergencies, oversight of dispensing medication, and other medical concerns related to children at the Crittenton Center for Shelter and Youth Development.

HOPES-HFI (Healthy Opportunities for Parents to Experience Success-Healthy Families Iowa)

A continuum of early intervention preventive care services including parenting education, family support services and in-home services for high-risk prenatal or new parent families.

The target population are young, often single parent families who are experiencing limited resources and/or a lack of educational, physical, social and emotional support.

Clients may be referred prenatal or postpartum by Crittenton Center’s Maternal Health Care program, Mercy Medical Center, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, private physician’s offices and other community agencies. Participation in the program is voluntary.

The program promotes optimal child development, positive parenting skills and family interaction through education and support. Services are designed to reduce child abuse/neglect and infant mortality while assisting parents with:

• increased child rearing knowledge and skills
• stress management
• career goal setting
• focused decision making and processing
• improved self-esteem and social functioning