Northwell Health Visits: A Family Connects Pilot Implementation at Northwell Health
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Northwell Health Visits (NHV) is a three year pilot replication of the evidence-based model, Family Connects, which is a brief universal Nurse Practitioner home visiting program for new mothers and their infants. We seek to compare outcomes among mothers and infants enrolled in the NHV enhanced intervention arm, those enrolled in the NHV screening-only arm, and those in the control arm. NHV will follow a three- armed randomized control trial design.
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Northwell Health Visits (NHV) is based on Family Connects (formerly Durham Connects), which is a short-term, universal, inexpensive postnatal nurse home visiting program designed to provide brief parenting intervention and to connect families with community resources based on individualized assessments of family needs. The intervention was found to reduce the number of infant emergency medical care episodes and rates of anxiety in mothers, as well as increase community connection, positive parenting behaviors, participation in higher quality out-of-home child care when implemented in Durham, so we are looking to replicate these outcomes. We are adapting the model to serve the local population that is served by Northwell Health - Katz Women's Hospital at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center, to see if increasing services in and around discharge is more useful for mothers and infants, and improves outcomes for infants. The focus is of early intervention (education and support by Nurse Practitioner), and connection to community agencies, in order to: reduce healthcare costs, decrease the rate of mothers and infants Potentially Preventable Emergency Room Visits (PPVs), adhere to well-baby care and mother's postpartum care schedules, improve family functioning, strengthen family partnerships and well-being, reduce necessary reports to child protective services, improve mental and physical health outcomes of mothers and infants within the first six months of life.
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- Infant Born at Katz Women's Hospital at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center
- Mother Age 18 years or older
- Mother who has delivered a single live born normal infant, vaginally or by cesarean section
- Mother Primary Language Spoken is English
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- Loss of Pregnancy
- Fetal demise
- No health insurance
- Infant in neonatal intensive care unit
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840 participants in 3 patient groups
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