IMCHC's Annual Gala
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Carnivale
Tickets $100 per person Click here for
more information about support opportunities and to R.S.V.P. online.
Illinois Premature Infant Health Network
Committee Calls for IPIHN
For more
information contact Sara
Howard.
text4baby
Text4baby is a free mobile information
service designed to promote maternal and child health. An educational
program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB),
text4baby provides pregnant women and new moms with information to help
them care for their health and give their babies the best possible start
in life. Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY to
511411
(or BEBE in Spanish) will receive free SMS text messages each week,
timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth.
HB6061 would prevent
Illinois insurance companies from treating women like pre-existing
conditions! Currently, health insurers are able to charge women more for
insurance, purely based on their gender, or charge them more or even
deny them coverage for previously having a c-section. Download a fact
sheet to learn more and ask your House Representation to co-sponsor and
support HB6061. Click here to read the full
fact sheet.
Support the
Reproductive Health and Access Act! Contact Your State
Representative Today! Click here to
read the full action alert.
IMCHC staff members, Kathy
Chan and Sara Howard, discuss the maintenance of effort requirement in
national health care reform for Medicaid and the Children's Health
Insurance Program.
Robyn Gabel is executive
director and Tamika Hinton is associate project manager at Illinois
Maternal and Child Health Coalition, a Foundation grantee. View the
presentation at the 24th Annual Luncheon of Chicago Foundation for
Women, Sept. 17, 2009.
Click here to view more from the luncheon on
CFW's website.
