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Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $156,325.00 in grant monies to fund the Moms Quit for Two Grant program for the period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
Smoking during pregnancy remains one of the most preventable causes of infant mortality (CDC, 2004). According to 2020 data released by the Ohio Department of Health 17% of all Ohio mothers smoked during the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, a rate that is double that of the nation. In Franklin County, 23.4% of WIC recipients reported smoking before or during pregnancy. The purpose of the Moms Quit for Two Program, an evidence-based smoking cessation program, is to increase smoking cessation rates among pregnant and postpartum women, by offering individualized tobacco cessation treatment, monitoring progress, and providing incentives for remaining smoke-free. This program aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce low birth weights and preterm birth rates, and increase overall quit rates as part of a larger strategy to reduce infant mortality.
Since 2014, the Baby & Me Tobacco Free Program at CPH has had a direct impact on infant mortality in Franklin County. Baby and Me Tobacco Free has unequivocally become the largest perinatal smoking cessation program in Ohio serving over 1,000 participants and their families since its inception. Participants are paired and case managed with a Registered Nurse. Baby & Me Tobacco Free nurses have Labor and Delivery, Post-partum, Pediatrics, Breast-feeding, lactation, and Women’s Health specialty experience and expertise. This allows patient and family-centered care as well as support from their nurses, during pregnancy and throughout the first year of their baby’s life.
This award-winning and evidence-based program was named a “Best Practice” in May of 2018 by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs and continues to positively impact the community...
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