500 Main StreetCourthouse

P.O. Box 86  Jetmore, Kansas 67854

(620)357-8736

Medicaid and Healthwave accepted

We have private stock vaccine and bill childhood immunizations to private insurance.

• Maternal assessment, education, counseling and referral through the Women, Infant and Children Program (WIC) and the Maternal and Infant Program (M&I). WIC program provides nutrition assessment and food checks to income eligible pregnant women, infants and children less than 5 years old. M&I program provides some financial assistance with prenatal care.

• Prenatal packets to pregnant women

• Breastfeeding education and Breast Pump rental program

• Home visits to pregnant women and newborns through the Healthy Start program

 

 

WIC

 

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, & children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating, and referrals to health care.

WIC supplies extra food and nutrition education for:

• Pregnant women

• New mothers - breastfeeding mothers up to one year

• Infants - under 1 year old

• Children - 1 to 5 years old

Eligibility requirements for WIC are:

• Income - House hold income less than 185% of the poverty level. Income eligibility varies depending on the number of people in your household.

• Residency - You must live in Kansas.

• Must be pregnant, breastfeeding, postpartum woman, infant, or child up to five years old.

 

M&I

A program designed to prevent health risks related to women who are pregnant, post-partum (after delivery), and their infants.  The program promotes the health of expectant mothers and their infants.  Education and support is provided for women with high risk pregnancies and more.

 

Healthy Start

What Can Home Visitors Do?

 Home visitors will offer support, they will listen to you and share with you the experience of being a parent. 

The home visitor can:

•  Make home visits before and soon after your baby is born.
• Answer your questions about pregnancy, infant care, feeding, and mother’s recovery.
• Offer friendly support.
• Provide you with information on prenatal care, baby

   care, nutrition, and immunization providers.

• Help you find community agencies or programs to meet your needs.
• Encourage you to contact your doctor about any health concern.
• Tell you what behavior to expect from your baby at various times during the first year.
• Give you information on discipline, the setting of rules and limits, for children.
• Explain kinds of play activities and toys suitable for your baby.
• Give helpful suggestions on nutrition.
• Provide or refer you for child development information.
• Explain what immunizations your baby should get and when your baby should get them.
• Tell you how to choose and use a child’s auto safety seat.
• And most important of all-listen and share in the experience of being a parent.

 Other Services A Home Visitor Can Tell You About

• Supplemental food for women, infants, and children (WIC)
• Life-style change programs- stop smoking, alcohol and drug abuse.
• Financial help- emergency food, food stamps, health care, and emergency assistance.
• How to obtain licensed childcare or babysitting.
• Adult education- how to speak English, learn to drive, get a high school diploma.
• Recreation and religious services.
• Marriage counseling.
• Family planning.
• Help with being a parent.
• Other available community services to help you provide best for your family.

• Kansas Farmworker Program - The Kansas Statewide Farmworker Health Program provides primary and preventative health care services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers throughout the state of Kansas.

 

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