Healthy families have kids who miss less school and parents who miss less work.
Health care coverage is an important way to ensure everyone stays healthy! For many families, health coverage is not available through their jobs -- either because it's not offered or it's too expensive.
Healthy Start and Healthy Families can help your family stay happy, healthy and strong. Healthy Start is free health coverage for kids from birth to 19 and pregnant women who qualify based on family income.
Healthy Families provide health coverage for the entire family, parents and children. A family's income will determine if they are eligible for Healthy Start and Healthy Families. Families meeting the income guidelines can get coverage for free or at very low cost. Some services for some family members may have co-pays of $1 to $3.
Healthy Start & Healthy Families covers theses services: doctor visits, pregnancy services, prescriptions, mental health, substance abuse, hospital care, dental care vision services, immunizations.
Working families can qualify. The family size and income will determine if the family is eligible for Healthy Start for their kids and Healthy Families for the entire family. A portion of certain monthly expenses (ie. child care, child support) is not counted as a part of monthly income.
You can apply by calling the Consumer Hotline at 1-800-324-8680.
Source: Cuyahoga County Board of Health
