AtlantiCare celebrates 'Special Delivery'
July 29, 2022
For Immediate Release: July 27, 2022
Atlantic City, NJ - AtlantiCare’s Women’s and Children’s Services Team is celebrating the newest edition to its Safe Beginnings program. They pulled a giant receiving blanket off of their new Safe Beginnings vehicle July 22, 2022. Nurses and doulas will use the colorful, branded SUV to bring care to families and babies in Atlantic City from pregnancy through baby’s first birthday.
Launched in 2021, AtlantiCare’s Safe Beginnings program is a first-of-its-kind service in Atlantic City, working to address root causes of maternal and infant mortality. The program provides prenatal and postnatal services to families in Atlantic City, regardless of their ability to pay. In addition to home visits, it offers a Transitions of Care Clinic and access to free baby safety items. The team of a certified nurse midwife, social worker, neonatologist, peer specialist, certified doulas and registered nurses is currently caring for 61 participants.
“AtlantiCare has long provided comprehensive, wrap-around services for families and babies, including our Center for Childbirth, NICU, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Family Planning and OB/GYN services,” said Sandra E. Garrett, MBA, BS Pharm, RPh, assistant vice president, AtlantiCare Women’s and Children’s Services. “Safe Beginnings complements AtlantiCare’s Women’s and Children’s Services by increasing access to care and resources.”
The “special delivery” celebration took place on the Ohio Avenue block of AtlantiCare’s new Medical Arts Pavilion, which will open this fall. Located across the street from AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Atlantic City Campus, the Pavilion will be the new home for Safe Beginnings and other AtlantiCare programs and services aimed at increasing access to care for the Atlantic City Community.
Families can learn more about Safe Beginnings by calling 609-441-8776 or by emailing [email protected].
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AtlantiCare is an integrated healthcare system based in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, whose more than 6,000 staff, providers and volunteers serve the community in more than 100 locations in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Ocean counties of southern New Jersey. Its vision of building healthy communities together drives its mission of making a difference in health and healing, one person at a time, through caring and trusting relationships. A Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner, AtlantiCare was also included in Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work. AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center was the 105th hospital in the nation to attain the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet™ designation in 2004 and earned redesignation in 2008, 2013, in 2018. Learn more at atlanticare.org or 1-888-569-1000.
