Workgroups and Programs:

Health Care Access Workgroup - enhances and increases utilization of preventive health care among children enrolled in Medicaid and MC+. Successfully implemented a pilot assessment and intervention in partnership with Riverview Garden School District. Currently planning to expand and replicate assessment to other school districts.

FIMR (Fetal Infant Mortality Review) - community based process of enhancing the health and well being of women, infants and families by improving community resources and service delivery systems available to them. Through FIMR, key members of the community come together to review information from individual fetal and infant deaths. The purpose of the reviews is to identify the factors associated with these deaths, determine if they represent systems problems that require change and assist in the implementation of change. Members of the case review teams represent a broad range of agencies and services (health, welfare, education and advocacy) that provide services and resources to women, children and families. The focus of the review is the systems of care and support and not the providers themselves.

Download the St. Louis Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Program
2007 Annual Report
2006 Annual Report
2007 Infant Mortality Surveillance Report

St. Louis Healthy Start Project - federally funded initiative aimed at positively impacting infant survival by emphasizing early and sustained prenatal care and coordinating the community/social aspects of care with the medical delivery system. . The program educates, encourages and empowers pregnant women in three zip codes, 63113, 63120, 63136 to have a healthy baby by providing home visits, assessment, care coordination, referrals and resources to assist in sustaining families of expectant mothers. Direct services are provided through a contract with Nurses for Newborns Foundation.

St. Louis Immunization Coalition - a partnership of public and private entities established to increase the number children fully immunized, disseminate information about Flu vaccines, and advocate for vaccination policy. The next project of the Immunization Coalition is a collaboration with the Department of Health and Senior Services and the Mid-America Immunization Coalition in Kansas City to increase adolescent immunization rates.