A Special Non-profit in Cincinnati
Centennial, Inc. admires a special non-profit in Cincinnati, Healthy Beginnings, for their legacy of providing quality medical care to expectant women in an environment of life-changing love and hope. With nearly 50% of families living in poverty and without medical insurance, we celebrate the fact that Greater Cincinnati is able to rely on Healthy Beginnings to provide access to prenatal care and reduce health care costs.
Timely and Comprehensive Care
When Healthy Beginnings opened its doors, only public health clinics and a few neighborhood clinics offered prenatal care outside of the major hospitals. The women served then, as now, were without private medical insurance.
Since 1993, Healthy Beginnings has helped thousands of pregnant women in Cincinnati who were without insurance, income, or family support. Healthy Beginnings is unique, in that it was conceived as an extension of an existing network of crisis pregnancy centers. Both organizations shared the common goal of reaching, educating, and serving disadvantaged young women from our region that were experiencing unplanned pregnancies. These women are often at risk for inadequate, late, or absent pre-natal care.
A network of four obstetrical clinics offers a multitude of services, including early diagnosis of maternal and fetal disease, on-site diagnostic ultrasounds, diet and nutrition counseling, Healthy Beginnings saves lives, nurtures mothers, gives babies a healthy start, and reduces health care costs.
Healthy Beginnings takes a collaborative approach to care alongside other community service organizations such as Every Child Succeeds, WIC, and Hamilton County Job and Family Services. Taken together, these organizations provide women with a safety net of medical insurance, transportation, food, social service support, material support and parenting classes.
Subscribe to Centennial, Inc.’s Leadership & Talent Blog by Email
