Before Christmas, the IU Health Revenue Cycle Services team ran a fundraiser for our Homeless Initiative Program (HIP). Even though this winter has been particularly warm, the holiday season is still a tough one for the homeless population. When everyone else is thinking about the gift they want to receive that they would never buy [...]

BRAND NEW Barrington Health & Dental Center Opening – Staff Celebration
Wednesday night, Barrington Health & Dental (new) Center staff came together to celebrate the opening of the new community health center. The address remains the same but the size difference is SUBSTANTIAL. The old building had about 6,500 square feet of cramped compassionate care and support services in it. BRAND NEW Barrington is a 26,000 [...]

Sending love to those who deserve it: Our HealthNet staff
Working here in the Administration building, it makes it hard to send love to our fantastic staff on a daily basis or even a weekly basis. HealthNet staff members are those who carry out our mission of improving lives by providing compassionate health care and support services on the front lines. Everyday they take on [...]

Love a Veteran This Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away! It’s a great day to share your appreciation not only with your family and loved ones, but also with those who help protect them. Next week most of us will scramble to buy cards and flowers for a sweetheart, but we should all look for a way [...]
Can you define Homeless?
Is someone homeless just because they don’t have a house? The Federal Definition of Homelessness as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is written as “an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence,” and “an individual who has a primary nighttime residence” that is “a supervised publicly [...]

What is the best way to end homelessness?
This post was originally published last January, but I think it is worth a repost! This is a debate that will go on and on and on because homelessness may never TOTALLY end. But, as I was reading a blog post on Chang.org’s Poverty in America section, I noticed a good analogy on how we [...]

Once Upon a Healty Baby… a success
While we don’t yet have the final tally on the amount raised or an exact count of donated items from the Once Upon a Child stores for our Better Indy Babies program, it is still safe to say that last Saturday’s Once Upon a Healthy Baby event was successful. These are just a few images from ONE of [...]
Shop for a Good Cause in Indy this Weekend!
It’s not every day that you can help someone in need just by shopping for a good deal. Saturday’s sale event at six Once Upon A Child stores in Indy will offer savvy shoppers BIG bargains on gently used infant and children’s clothing as well as other “kid gear.” And, a portion of the day’s [...]
Once Upon a Healthy Baby [Video]
This Saturday at various Once Upon a Child locations in Indianapolis and Carmel, proceeds from their ALL DAY CLEARANCE SALE will go toward Better Indy Babies! A home-visitation program that helps promote healthier pregnancies in order to have healthier babies and combat Indiana’s low rank – 39th out of 50 – in infant mortality rate! [...]
How home visitation program can help the age group with the highest rate of victimization and maltreatment
A report done by the National Center for Children in Poverty showed the factors that increase the risk of infant maltreatment. These factors are: smoking during pregnancy infant having two or more siblings Medicaid enrollee unmarried infant low-birth weight less than high school education teen mother short spacing (under 15 months) between pregnancy poor pre-natal [...]
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