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Wishard Health Services
| AIDS/HIV
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Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC):
Wishard’s Infectious Disease Clinic was selected as the Indiana Local Performance Site for MATEC, the clinical training arm of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
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| Patient Care
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Center of Hope at Wishard:
This program, operating in the Wishard Emergency Department, provides specialized care to victims of sexual abuse, domestic violence, and other forms of violence or neglect.
Prescription for Hope:
This program addresses risk factors for violence and crime and develops protective factors for personal safety and positive citizenship in individuals admitted to the Wishard Emergency Department with a gunshot wound, stab wound, or other injury resulting from violence.
Wishard Volunteer Advocates Program:
This program provides trained court-appointed guardians to facilitate healthcare and social services and to plan appropriate residential placement for patients who are ill, incapacitated, and do not have financial resources or adequate social support.
Medical-Legal Partnership:
This program provides legal services to Wishard patients when they have health problems that require legal remedies. As part of the treatment team, the Medical Legal Partnership attorney addresses environmental, financial and social factors that impact patient health.
EMBRACE:
This program provides wraparound services such as prescription drug and transportation assistance, medical supplies and equipment, and individual counseling to female patients living with cancer.
Senior Care:
This program provides wraparound services to Wishard’s older adult patients by supplying items such as emergency response systems and durable medical equipment, assisting with emergency prescription costs, and offering health and wellness programs.
Take Charge Lite:
This program promotes a healthy lifestyle among Wishard patients by providing instruction in weight management, nutritious eating, and physical fitness.
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| Community-Based Care
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Healthy Families:
This program provides early intervention services to families through in-home parenting training to prevent child abuse.
Family Planning Program:
This program provides counseling and education, medical services, follow-up, and referral for appropriate services.
Prenatal Care Coordination Program:
This program provides a multidisciplinary range of preventive health services to women who are pregnant, including: physical exams, nutrition counseling, social services, education, counseling, interventions, and referral services.
Patient Navigation:
This program helps patients at Wishard’s community health centers navigate through the healthcare system, identify barriers to care, and connect to programs, and services that address those barriers.
Stop Taking On Pounds (STOP):
This program addresses the epidemic of childhood obesity by providing a six month after school program for children and their parents covering: how to eat nutritious foods in the right amounts; fun ways to be more physically active together; and how to change behaviors that lead to gaining more weight than is healthy.
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