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Welcome to the P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center!
NIAGARA FALLS, NY – Open less than a year, the P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids has reached an unbelievable amount of clients and is expanding its services to the rest of the county and beyond.
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center is a regional health care provider located in the Greater Niagara Region who pride themselves in being a medical center that is always advancing and making improvements to their hospital. One area of the hospital that has just recently been expanded to reach more patients is the P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids.
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center opened its P3 Center for Teens, Moms, and Kids on Sept. 21, 2015. The center focuses on planning, pregnancy and parenting. It is supported by a $1.15 million competitive state grant awarded to address social and health needs of women and their families.
“The P3 Center originally is a program from the New York State Department of Health under a grant that is called the material and infant community health collaborative,” says Sarah Obot, the P3 Center Coordinator. “We have renamed our center to the P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids and the P3 Center for family planning, pregnancy and parenting.”
Obot explains that at the P3 Center, they take a women’s life in a wholistic approach. The center connects and coordinates a women’s services by understanding what she needs in order to be healthy for herself. The center helps a women’s family if she already has one or the family she is about to start become healthy and stay healthy.
“From puberty to menopause, whatever it is that they need, we will do,” she says. “We know that housing, transportation and education are all factors that impact a persons health.
If a women is not healthy when she decides to have a child, Obot says that it might have a negative impact on the infants health.
“To have healthy adults in the future, we take it at the source, and that means having healthy women,” says Obot. “We want to make sure that they’re healthy so their baby can be healthy.”
The P3 Center has had a solid network in Niagara Falls. Now, they are expanding their services to Niagara County and surrounding counties.
A play room for children at the P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids.
The expansion of the P3 center is caused by DSRIP initiatives that have been occurring. DSRIP is a Medicaid reform used to review how centers provide services to the Medicaid population. One of the projects through DSRIP is a maternal and infant health project.
“Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center belongs to a group called a PPS,” says Obot. “For the group that we belong to, it was decided by DSRIP people that we would follow a Mitch model to implement maternal infant health.”
The Mitch model is the model for the Department of Health and stands for the maternal infant community health collaborative. Obot says that by following the Mitch model, that allows them to expand their services to the rest of the county.
“With the Department of Health, we can only serve women in certain zip codes of Niagara Falls,” she explains. “With the DSRIP extension of the program, we are now able to serve any women in the country of Niagara.”
The P3 Center is also able to serve patients borderline with Erie County and Orleans County through the extension.
“We do not want to turn anyone away and if there is need to service, we will service them,” she says. “We want to make sure that we provide them with quality of services, so we want to remain in areas that we have easily access to.”
Right now in Niagara Falls, the P3 Center has contact with the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Maternity floor and the OB/GYN Center. The center also has contacts with other OB/GYN Centers in the community, pediatricians, community based agencies and faith based agencies. They want to have contact with those that provide health care services, social services, or are in contact with women who are at risk.
As part of the expansion, the P3 Center will have two DSRIP workers located in Lockport, NY.
“We are collaborating with the YWCA of Lockport to have a home for our DSRIP workers,” she says. “Those workers will focus their attention on Lockport, Newfane, Barker and Wilson.”
Obot explains that two other DSRIP workers will be being placed at the Golisano Center for Community Health that is opening in May. They will focus their attention on North Tonawanda, Wheatfield, Lewiston, Youngstown and Niagara Falls.”
Since its opening in September, the P3 Center has become extremely popular. Since the end of September, they have been referred 222 clients just in Niagara Falls. With the expansion, Obot explains that they are hoping to double that number.
Obot strongly believes that the P3 Center is essential to the hospital and surrounding counties in the area. She has always worked with families in the communities and she sees that there is a struggle.
Front desk window at P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids.
“There are a lot of families in our community that do not have a support system,” she says.
Many patients at the P3 Center have not had their mothers present in their lives to properly educate them about puberty and healthy relationships. The P3 Center exists to help educate women about the situation they are in.
“We see a lot of our women getting pregnant without making a decision of getting pregnant,” says Obot. “Even if they have made that decision, then we see then lacking the tools and the support to be able to be healthy for themselves.”
Obot explains that at the P3 Center, the workers that interact with the patients are called community health workers. Their job is to be a role model to the women that they serve. They are there to be the support that right now these women do not have. The community health workers are there for the women as much as they can be as they teach the women how to be independent mothers.
Obot says that she enjoys coming to work every single day. She has previously worked in fields such as psychology, psychiatry, child care, and research, but she strongly feels that she has found her place working at the P3 Center for Teens, Moms and Kids.
“This job is just a good environment for me personally,” she says. “I definitely enjoy the teaching part of it and the role modeling of myself to my workers.”
Obot also loves working for the hospital and being part of the cause.
“We are here to help the community and make a difference,” says Obot. “I enjoy the fact that I have a lot of flexibility and I can use a lot of creativity.”
The center is located in the Hamilton B. Mizer Primary Care Center. For more information, please call (716) 278-4423.
On April 5, 2016, the Public Relations Student Society of Niagara hosted Meet the Professionals Night in Bisgrove Hall at Niagara University! Over 15 business professionals in their fields came to talk to students about their work and possible internship opportunities. The event was extremely enjoyed by all in attendance and it was a huge success!
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