Contact: Sharon Sopp, 410.740.7646, ssopp@hcgh.org
For Immediate Release
Columbia, MD – The Healthy Families Howard County program at Howard County General Hospital: A Member of Johns Hopkins Medicine received a $45,500 grant from the Howard County Government as part of the Community Service Partnerships (CSP) program.
Healthy Families Howard County provides first-time parents with educational and emotional support to ease the parents’ transition through pregnancy and into the first five years of parenthood. Participants in the program receive home visitation and referrals from Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland. The program began in November 2001 with a grant from the Howard County Children’s Board and receives additional funding from the Freddie Mac Foundation and the Columbia Foundation.
Healthy Families Howard County also is funded by grants from the Local Children’s Board of Howard County, the Freddie Mac Foundation and the Columbia Foundation and is administered by Howard County General Hospital in partnership with Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland.
Howard County General Hospital: A Member of Johns Hopkins Medicine since 1998 is a 219-bed, not-for-profit, health care provider located in Columbia, Maryland. Serving the community since 1973, the hospital, with a professional staff of over 800 physicians and allied health professionals, representing more than 70 specialties and subspecialties, and a workforce of more than 1,700, has grown into a comprehensive, acute-care medical center that offers a full range of services, from neonatal care and oncology to outpatient treatment and critical care.
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