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Pregnancy Care

Supportive Pregnancy Care
Pregnancy is an exciting time. But it can also be challenging, especially if you’re a first-time mom. When you join Crossroad’s Supportive Pregnancy Care program at our Western Hills site, you can build a friendly and understanding community with other expectant mothers. The program brings together a small group of pregnant women with similar due dates for prenatal care with a qualified Crossroad facilitator. During the group sessions, you will prepare for your birth experience and receive practical, hands-on information about how to care for yourself and your baby.

Get Rewarded When You Join Our Supportive Pregnancy Care Group
When you join the Supportive Pregnancy Care program, you can build a friendly and understanding community with other expectant
mothers. You can learn how to best care for yourself and your baby. And you can enjoy these great benefits!

1st group visit – receive a $25 gift card
Every 3 visits – receive a $10 gift card (total of 3)
Complete all prenatal visits – receive a Pack 'N' Play
Postpartum visit – receive a gift basket with self-care and baby items

Why Join Our Supportive Pregnancy Care Group?
Whether this is your first baby or you’re an experienced mom, group prenatal care can help you feel confident and supported throughout your pregnancy. Our Supportive Pregnancy Care program:

Makes a premature birth less likely
Helps your baby be as healthy as possible
Helps you breastfeed longer
Better prepares you for your baby’s birth
Eases any prenatal stress and tension
Provides social support within your group

Enrolling in Supportive Pregnancy Care means you’re taking positive steps to support the health and wellness of you and your baby!
Call 513-922-4271 to enroll or find out more.

Crossroad Health Center – Western Hills
2170 Anderson Ferry Road
Cincinnati, OH 45238
513-922-4271
www.crossroadhc.org

Child Care

Safe Sleep

Lead-free Kids

Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank

Through our partnership with Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank, Crossroad is able to provide our patients with free diapers for their infants and toddlers. Learn more here.

Cribs for Kids

To help prevent infant mortality, we partner with the Cincinnati Health Department to bring the Cribs for Kids safe sleep program to our youngest and most vulnerable patients – infants. Each eligible patient can receive one cribette that includes safe sleep education, pad, sheet and sleep outfit. Read more: https://cribsforkids.org/cribette/

Reach Out & Read

At each well-child visit until the age of 5 years, your child is eligible to receive a free, brand-new, age-appropriate book to help promote healthy development and relationships.

Imagination Library

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a no-cost program that mails a new book to the enrolled child every month, from birth until age 5. Parents or guardians can sign up at the office or visit your local library.

Freestore Foodbank Clinic Pantry

As part of their visit, each patient is screened for food insecurity. Crossroad partners with the Freestore Foodbank to provide shelf-stable food items at the time of visit to patients who screen positive for food insecurity.

Prevent Blindness Ohio

Crossroad partners with Prevent Blindness Ohio to help provide eye exams and glasses to uninsured adults and children through their Vision Care Outreach Program. Once identified as needing an eye exam, your provider will notify your Care Coordinator. They will work with Prevent Blindness Ohio and follow up with you regarding your eye exam and glasses. Read more: https://ohio.preventblindness.org/vision-care-outreach-program/

Cancer Prevention

We want to help prevent cancer or catch cancer early as much as possible. Patients can help lower their risk of cancers or cancers that have become more dangerous by following general cancer screening guidelines.

There are many different cancer screening guidelines. The American Cancer Society offers a list of their recommendations (Visit their “All about cancer” link). The United States Preventive Services Task Force offers another similar list. We encourage our patients to follow these guidelines in consultation with your primary care provider (PCP).

A great way to make sure your PCP has time to advise you on these screenings is to schedule an “Annual Physical” once a year where your visit is focused only on preventive health and not on your chronic conditions or new problems or symptoms.

In general, here are some important cancers we can prevent or catch early:

Colon Cancer

Colon (or colorectal) cancers are typically curable if they are found early, and thankfully many can be found early through screening. An annual FIT test (stool sample for blood), a stool DNA test (Cologuard), or a colonoscopy are the main ways to screen. Cologuard (a test done at home and typically covered by insurance and discounted for uninsured) or colonoscopy are better than the annual FIT stool test at catching cancer early. Most patients should start colon cancer screening by age 45 years, some even earlier, such as people with a family history. Click here for more information on colon cancer screening.

Cervical Cancer

Most cervical cancers can be prevented with the HPV vaccine in childhood (and many adult women can also get this vaccine) that protects girls and women from the virus strains that are most linked to the cancer. Women should also generally start getting screened for cervical cancer with “pap” test starting at age 21, generally until they are 65 years old. For more information about cervical cancer, click here.

Breast Cancer

Most women should get mammograms to screen for breast cancer generally from age 40 or 50 through 75 years or later. Women with a family history of breast cancer, especially in close relatives, may benefit from genetic screening as well (BRCA gene testing). Click here for more information about breast cancer screening.

Lung Cancer

People who have smoked a lot (on average, a pack-a-day for 20 years or more) may benefit from lung cancer screening from age 50 to 80 through an annual x-ray-type test called a low-dose CT scan (LDCT). Click here for more information about lung cancer screening.

Skin Cancer

All patients are advised to get an “Annual Physical”. At these visits, your PCP can take time to ask you about any skin spot concerns and advise you about these. Melanoma and other skin cancers are common and are important to prevent and to catch early. Use sun protection, regardless of your skin tone. Tell your PCP if you have any concerning skin spots like a changing or uglier-than-normal mole. Click here for more information on skin cancer and skin cancer screening.

Eating Healthy and Staying Active

Eating healthy and staying active are critical to our overall health. Unfortunately, there are many challenges to a healthy lifestyle in America. Cheap snack foods, fried and fast foods, sugar-loaded drinks, stressful schedules and busyness, difficulty accessing or affording healthy foods, and too much screen time on our phones and TVs are just some of the barriers we may face.

Crossroad providers and staff are committed to helping you improve your health as much as possible by helping you set goals for better nutrition and meals, and physical activity that works for you, whether that’s a 10-minute walk or a more involved work-out. We use a "motivational interviewing" approach that helps you as the patient set “SMART” (specific, measurable, attainable) goals that you feel like you can achieve.

If you have food insecurity, ask us about our Food Pantry and La Soupe programs. If you have prediabetes or diabetes, our diabetic educator can give you coaching tips. Tell your provider if you would like more information, ideas, or coaching on healthy diet and activity. An “Annual Wellness” (also called an “Annual Physical”) is often covered by insurances and allows providers to have time to review preventive health recommendations, including diet and activity. For your kids, make sure you’re seeing their provider for their “Well Child Checks.”

The “Healthy Eating Plate” from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/healthy-eating-plate/
Healthy Food and Nutrition (AAFP’s familydoctor.org): https://familydoctor.org/prevention-and-wellness/food-and-nutrition/
Healthy Eating Tips (CDC): https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/features/healthy-eating-tips.html
Tips for Eating Well (American Diabetes Association): https://diabetes.org/food-nutrition/eating-healthy
“5-2-1-0” for Kids (AAP): https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/Healthy-Active-Living-for-Families.aspx

Activity ideas and recommendations for kids (AAP's healthychildren.org): https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/fitness/Pages/default.aspx
Exercise and Fitness (AAFP’s familydoctor.org): https://familydoctor.org/prevention-and-wellness/exercise-and-fitness/
Child Activity Overview (CDC): https://www.cdc.gov/physical-activity-basics/guidelines/children.html

Protection Through Vaccines

Vaccines (immunizations) are an important tool we can use to protect ourselves as individuals and as a society. We generally follow and advise patients based on ACIP immunization guidelines.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/parents/index.html

At Crossroad, we provide vaccines for babies and kids through Ohio’s Vaccines for Children (VFC) program.

For adults, we are able to provide some vaccines, but for insured patients, most vaccines will need to be received through your local pharmacy. Here are adult recommendations for vaccines. Vaccines we commonly recommend for adults include:

Seasonal Flu Vaccine (every Fall)
Seasonal Covid-19 Vaccine (every Fall)
Pneumonia Vaccine for bacterial pneumonia based on risks and for patients over 65 years
Tetanus and Pertussis boosters
Shingles vaccine for middle-aged and older adults
Others depending on age and risks
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adults/index.html

Providers are glad to discuss the indications and benefits of vaccines with our patients as well as answer questions or hesitancy patients or parents may have.

You can also learn more about vaccines from Immunizations.org.

https://www.immunize.org/official-guidance/cdc/acip-recs/vaccines/

Spiritual Health

All people are made in God’s image and are deeply precious to Him.
Just as we care for our physical and mental well-being, it’s important to nurture our spiritual health and our relationship with God. We can grow spiritually by being part of a worshiping community, by spending time in God’s Word, and by sharing our hearts with Him through prayer and thanksgiving.

Looking for a Church Home?
We invite you to explore ChurchFinder.com to discover churches in your area. Just enter what you're looking for in a church home to find a community that fits your spiritual needs.

Would You Like a Bible or Spiritual Encouragement?
Next time you visit Crossroad, feel free to take a free Bible, devotional, or booklet for yourself or your family.
Prefer digital? You can also download a free Bible app—like YouVersion—on your phone or tablet.

Need Prayer?
We care about you. If you have a need you'd like prayer for, please email our chaplain at prayers@crossrd.org. Our chaplain will pray for your request and can reach out to you personally if you’d like.