Bronx Healthy Start Program

The Bronx Healthy Start Program (BxHSP) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine works to ensure that expecting and postpartum moms and babies up to the age of 2 years are healthy, safe, and thriving. The program uses case management as the core service connecting mothers and their families to free and confidential screening and referral to medical services, voluntary home visitation, and resources. The goal of the program is to improve birth outcomes and reduce infant and maternal morbidity and mortality. As a federally funded program, BxHSP also seeks to preserve continuity of care and reduce disparities for women, children and families.

Participants in BxHSP are directly connected to a wide variety of services.

• Access to prenatal and postpartum care
• Medical home for well women visits
• Access to well-baby visits and childhood immunizations
• Assistance with Health insurance enrollment
• Referrals to WIC services & SNAP
• Family planning assistance and interconception care
• Parenting skills, centering pregnancy, and centering parents
• Breastfeeding
• Safe sleep and cribs for baby
• Links to local resources for jobs, childcare, counseling, and education

The program is community based strategy of the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal Child Health Bureau and works collaboratively with a network of community-based organizations to achieve improved birth outcomes and strengthen health care infrastructure in the Bronx.

This program may be for you if:

• You are of reproductive age
• You are pregnant
• You are a mom or dad with a baby younger than 2 years old
• You need health insurance
• You live in the Bronx Community Districts 4, 5, 7, or 11