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Welcome to Enterprise Community Healthy Start, where our primary concern is with the well being of societies mothers and children. We are here as a community driven approach to reduce infant mortality rates (death rate). We are committed to assist in the improvement of the quality of life as well as promoting and teaching healthy lifestyles. America’s future will be determined by what we do to improve the health of mothers, children, and families. Infant mortality remains a tragic problem that can be solved only if all community leaders, businesses, health care professionals, and policymakers work together to find solutions. Enterprise Community Healthy Start can help you if you are planning to get pregnant, are pregnant or you’ve just had a baby. We can help you find special health services for yourself, your baby or teen child.

About ECHS…

In 1991, the Healthy Start Initiative was founded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Maternal and Child Health Bureau to support programs to reduce infant mortality, based on the thought that community-driven ideas were needed to attack the causes of infant death and low birth weight, especially among high-risk populations. Healthy Start focuses on the need to strengthen and enhance community systems of maternal and infant care and works with communities to address the medical, behavioral, social service, and cultural needs of women and infantsHealthy Start supports communities to provide community-based, culturally- sensitive, family-centered, comprehensive perinatal services to women, infants, and their families and to integrate these services into existing perinatal systems of care. This mission requires reaching beyond the well-being of newborns to address the well-being and empowerment of mothers, fathers, families, and entire communities. We respect and respond to all individuals with honesty and confidentiality in hopes to promote healthy patient/client relationships.

OUR MISSION:

To reduce low birth weight, preterm delivery, and infant mortality through improvement of infant health and women's health before, during, and after pregnancy through two years post delivery in Burke and McDuffie counties.

We are here to serve you while improving outreach education.

We strongly encourage contact with health education, social services providers and agencies in addition to home visitation contact between the patient and nurse.

The choice is up to you!

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Thank you for taking an interest in Enterprise Community Healthy Start! Your support alone is greatly appreciated. We at Enterprise Community Healthy Start have a year load of great opportunities that are open to the public. If you would like to become a client or volunteer to help the fight against infant mortality, please feel free to contact us. I look forward to hearing from you and working with you!! Remember a little effort from you goes a long way to someone in despair.

Sincerely,

Sandra M. Pittman, PhD, RN

Director, ECHS