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Maternal-Infant Services Network
Your Mid-Hudson Perinatal Network since 1990...
Dedicated to Family and Community Health and Wellness

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June 27
National HIV Testing Day
Newburgh site info
check back again for updates to the list of testing sites in the
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Show Your Love Campaign Highlights Importance of Healthy Habits Before Pregnancy
Read MISN Executive Director Caren Fairweather's latest Times Herald Record article.
YOGA For BIRTHING!!
One-day intensive! June 29 at Picture Perfect Birthing in Warwick
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DID YOU KNOW….
MISN’s Community Health Advocates (CHA) program offers free presentations and trainings to educate New Yorkers on many aspects of health insurance. These presentations are offered to raise awareness of health care issues and educate people about their rights in the health care system in New York.
Since 2010, MISN’s CHA program has conducted over 89 presentations, educating over 1484 consumers about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and health insurance options.
A CHA representative can come to your site to provide information on many topics, including:
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Eligibility and Enrollment for Public Health Insurance
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Consumer Rights in Managed Care
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Medicare
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ACA: What’s in health care reform for me?
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Introduction to CHA
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HIV+ Options
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Options for the Uninsured
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COBRA
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Hospital Financial Assistance
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Managed Long Term Care
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Prescription Assistance Programs
For additional information and/or to schedule a FREE presentation, please call 845-561-3575 or email cha@misn-ny.org
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Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women will no longer need to worry about getting much of the preventive health care they need because of the costs associated.
A new provision in the ACA went into effect August 1, 2012, which requires all new health plans to cover the following services without co-pays or deductibles:
• Well-woman visits
• Gestational diabetes screening
• HPV DNA testing
• STI counseling, and HIV screening and counseling
• Contraception and contraceptive counseling
• Breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling
• Domestic violence screening
For additional information or to schedule a FREE information session, please call MISN Community Health Advocates (CHA):
845-561-3575or email cha@misn-ny.org
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Do you have health insurance issues?
Problems with hospital bills?
Need to find free or low-cost health insurance?
COBRA questions?
MISN Community Health Advocates (CHA)
can help!
English Espanol
1-845-325-5532 or
cha@misn-ny.org
We are in Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Rockland, Putnam and Greene Counties!
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The Top 5 Things You Need to Know About the Affordable Care Act:
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Attention Port Jervis Moms!
MISN needs your help!
We are gathering information about birthing services in Port Jervis. Please click here to take our electronic survey.

Attention Health and Human Service Providers:
New Resource on Teen Pregnancy Prevention from the CDC!
New Resources from National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition!
POW'R Tobacco Cessation Center - for providers
Click here for New York State's latest Baby Stats from the Zero to Three National Center
Debunking the myths around cesarean section
Do you know how much it will cost to raise your child? |
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Baby Talk!
Talk to other new moms about concerns you may have, breastfeeding, changes in your family, body image, work and motherhood, share birth stories, and much more.
Drop in anytime! WIC Program at 33 Fulton St., Middletown
Monday - Friday noon - 2 pm Please call first!
Call or text the MISN WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program
at 845-662-7677 to register
Orange County Department of Health/MISN WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program
Text the Peer Counselors at 845-662-7677 for more information.
Baby Talk - New Moms' Support Group
Wednesday mornings at 11:30 am Port Jervis at the Middletown Community Health Center
Call or text Rachel at (845) 590-6978 or send an email for more information or to sign up.
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Wednesdays at 12:30 at the Orange County Department of Health WIC Clinic in Middletown
Contact Anankhka or Nicole at 845-662-7677 for information
Birth Matters - Afterschool group at Middletown High School
Contact Rachel Durland for information
Looking for Mental Health Resources?
For resources in Ulster County
New PPD Support Group in Kingston!
Meets Thursday nights 6 -8 pm
Info
Orange County
Sullivan County
Hudson Valley Psychological Association
Pregnant? Think, Don't Drink!
Video
Radio PSA
Patient Handbook
Are you expecting a baby? Click here to see a video on avoiding unnecessary medical interventions during labor
Learn how to prevent CMV!!!
Learn more about birth defects....
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The new MHLC Directory of Mid-Hudson Valley Breastfeeding Resources is available:
click here
New York State Health Department Adds Breastfeeding Measures to
Hospital Maternity Information
Find out which NYS Hospitals are doing the
best at exclusive breastmilk feeding
Help fight childhood obesity! Moms have the power!
MISN is sponsoring a
DIAPER DONATION DRIVE!
We are collecting packages of new disposable diapers - all sizes are appreciated!
We'll get them out to the moms and babies in need in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster Counties!
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Check out our page for Teens!

Ready to Quit Smoking?
Click here for the New York State Smoker's Quitline!
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Are you a health care or human service provider that serves women in Ulster County who are suffering from perinatal mood disorders?
If you would like to be listed in the resource directory that we are developing, please click here to request the link to take our online survey.
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Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nation's Babies
Click here to watch the video
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Click here to download the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services internet-based family health
history tool. The new tool makes it easier to assemble and
share family health history with your healthcare providers. |
Because Any Day is Mother's Day! |
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MISN is Funded Through Contracts With:
- New York State Department of Health
- New York Department of Health, Bureau of Women's Health
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