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Pregnancy Management Programs

When disease management programs first appeared in the early 1990's, they typically covered two diseases, heart disease and asthma.

Although pregnancy management is relatively rare, some employers are beginning to include prenatal care into the disease management programs that they offer to workers to ward off the risk of premature births and costly hospitalizations. The goal of these programs is to have productive and healthy employees and cut medical expenses for employers.

Pregnancy management programs usually offer services like counseling from 24/7 on-call nurses, a nutritional risk assessment, an environmental risk assessment, guidelines for proper weight gain and dietary intake, and education regarding labor, delivery and infant feeding. For more information on this topic go to Benefit News.com.

posted by Mike @ 9:00 AM