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Auxillary Services
Help Me Grow/WIC
Community Health Professionals, Inc. is the sponsoring organization for the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) and Help Me Grow programs in Van Wert County.
• WIC WIC is a nutrition education program that provides nutritious foods which promote good health for pregnant women, women who just had a baby, breastfeeding moms, infants and children up to age five. In addition to education and support, WIC provides immunization screening and referral, health care referrals, and supplemental foods.
Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or have a baby less than six-months-old, an infants and children up to five-years-old are eligible to apply for WIC. To qualify, applicants must live in Ohio, meet WIC income guidelines and meet certain nutritional or health risks.
• Help Me Grow Help Me Grow is an initiative of Ohio Family and Children First that offers services for families, prenatal to age three, including newborn home visits, ongoing home visits and help for families that have children with development delays.
All mothers in Van Wert County can get a one-time newborn home visit from a Help Me Grow registered nurse. The nurse will provide information concerning a variety of issues, a health assessment of the mother and baby, referrals to needed services.
Health Watch
Health Watch is a personal monitoring system that provides you or a loved one with a 24-hour connection to emergency assistance. At the touch of a button on the Health Watch Personal Transmitter pendant or system console, highly-trained professionals at the Health Watch Response Center can immediately send the appropriate emergency assistance.
Health Watch gives you and your family freedom, security and assurance knowing that someone is always there to take care of you or your loved one. Health Watch provides the vital safety net that many people need to continue living safely at home. Health Watch is the only system that automatically self-tests all components every day, and the only one that automatically monitors for functionality and battery status.
Massage Therapy
Community Health Professionals has three state-licensed massage therapists on staff to assist with hospice pain and symptom management. Massage therapy is also available by appointment to the public.
Massage Therapy is a skillful touch applied to the body to encourage healing and relief of pain and anxiety. Massage is always provided in a discreet manner.
Diabetes Self-Management
Nearly 16 million people in the United States have diabetes. Diabetes is controlled by a diet and exercise program carefully tailored to each individual. The diabetes self-management program is staffed by a Certified Diabetes Educator, diabetes resource nurse, licensed social worker, Registered Dietitian, and Certified Wound Care Nurse.
Working under the direction of a physician, the program is open to all persons with diabetes and their family members. Nutritional counseling, meal planning, weight reduction, and cholesterol monitoring are available to home health patients or on an outpatient basis.
ANDY: Against Nicotine Dependency for You
The ANDY program helps people gain freedom from tobacco by offering adult cessation classes utilizing the Mayo Clinic Model. The world renowned Mayo Clinic conducts ongoing research to refine and improve treatment approaches and success rates for smoking cessation.
Participants meet as a group where they are encouraged by others like them who are trying to quit and those who have successfully quit. They learn about the many health benefits of not using tobacco, how stress effects tobacco use, and how to plan ahead to prevent relapse.
The ANDY Program, a partnership of Community Health Professionals, Inc., P&R Medical Connection and the Van Wert County YMCA; funded by the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation.
The program is entirely FREE and open to all tobacco users who want to quit.
•FREE! Tobacco Cessation Classes
•FREE! Health Evaluations
•FREE! YMCA/YWCA Family Memberships to those committed to a healthy lifestyle change
•FREE! Childcare
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