Provides services and programs that focus on children and improving their quality of life, through financial assistance, research and education.

Wyandot County Public Health’s Children with Medical Handicaps (CMH), (formerly known as Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps or BCMH), is a program administered by the Ohio Department of Health that links families of children with special health care needs to a network of quality providers helping families pay for the medical services a child needs.

BCMH is a tax supported, state administered, program of the Ohio Department of Health. Their mission is to assure through the development and support of high quality and coordinated systems, so that children with special health care needs and their families obtain comprehensive care and services which are family centered, community based and culturally competent. The purpose of BCMH is to rule out a handicapping condition, to diagnose a condition and/or develop a plan of treatment.

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) announced today that a wide variety of no-cost health services will be offered to residents of Crawford County. The services are made possible through a partnership between ODH, the Ohio National Guard, Crawford County Public Health, the Crawford County Board of Developmental Disabilities, and local community partners. Services include: - Behavioral health services - Bicycle helmets - Blood lab work - Blood lead level screenings - Car Seats (and car-seat safety checks) - Dental exams and treatments - Financial coaching - Immunizations for all ages - Mammograms - Physicals (including sports physicals) - Vision exams and prescriptions In addition, a resource fair on site will help people get access to local healthcare providers and have information on addiction care, the state’s Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD), the Ohio Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC), Job & Family Services, Medicaid, the Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Ohio, and much more.

Offers copay assistance for specific programs.

Co-Pay Assistance Program helps you pay your insurance premiums and meet co-pay obligations. We'll also help you find additional sources of financial help. Program offers financial help toward: cancer treatment-related co-pays, private health insurance premiums, private insurance co-pay obligations, Medicare Part B, Medicare Plan D, Medicare Supplementary Health Insurance, Medicare Advantage premium, Medicaid Spend-down or co-pay obligations.

Provides an allowance of $100 that enables eligible individuals to purchase over-the-counter medical supplies.

Provides limited financial assistance to individuals and families in need. Assistance may include rent, mortgage, and utility payment assistance. Agency will screen individuals to find potential services in the community that can meet the client's needs, as this is a program of last resort.

Helps connect women in Ashland County without insurance to resources which cover costs of routine mammograms, such as BCCP (Breast Cervical Cancer Prevention) program. If a program is not found, then through University Samaritan Medical Center Women's Care a mammogram can be scheduled and ACCA will pay for it.

Provides limited one-time emergency assistance with rent, utilities, prescriptions, food, transportation and other approved needs.

Provides health insurance premium payments up to $1,200 for eligible individuals, allowing them to continue existing health insurance policies, thereby receiving adequate prescription drug coverage.

Through the Health Insurance Premium Program (HIPP), the American Kidney Fund pays Part B Medicare, Medigap, commercial, and COBRA premiums for dialysis patients who have insufficient income and savings. These premium payments allow patients to continue their health insurance coverage, enabling access to physician care and medical treatment. The Safety Net Program provides small grants to dialysis and kidney transplant patients to help with treatment-related expenses, such as transportation costs to reach dialysis; over-the-counter medicines, medication co-payments, kidney donor expenses and other necessities such as dentures. Nutritional products, and durable medical supplies. The American Kidney Fund has contracted with mail order pharmacies to provide medications and supplies at discount prices, thereby increasing the purchasing power of patients’ grants Disaster relief assistance when catastrophic events strike dialysis patients’ communities. This program provides funds to help patients replace medications, food and household items and pay for other necessities lost because of disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, etc. The cost of dialysis while traveling. Patients or facilities may be reimbursed for the 20% of treatment costs not covered by Medicare or any other source for emergency transient dialysis. Grants are limited to travel necessitated by death or serious illness in the family or for the purpose of kidney transplant workup only.

Healthchek is a preventive Health Care Program for Newborns, Children, and Teens. - Children eligible for Healthchek services through Medicaid may receive free physical exams as well as dental, vision, and hearing services. - Newborns should have six preventive health checkups by age one, and two more checkups between one to two years of age. Those checkups will also make sure your child receives all of the shots he/she needs. Shots prevent illnesses that cause pain, fever, rashes, cough, sore throats, hearing loss, blindness, crippling, brain damage - even death. - Children & teens...From age two and up, your child should have a preventive Healthchek exam once a year. Healthchek services are also important for teenagers--adolescence is a time of rapid change and growth in the body. The Healthchek screening may serve as a sports physical. ACDJFS can assist you by providing names of doctors and dentists, strategies for scheduling appointments, and transportation to those appointments. If you are interested in Healthchek, contact ACDJFS at 800-762-3775. Eligibility is based on income and need. If you think you might be eligible, you can complete the Healthchek and pregnancy services assessment form (provided by ACDJFS) and return it to us. If you are eligible for Healthchek services through Medicaid, we will contact you and arrange for services.

Provides primary care and other medical services. Services include assistance with medications, dental and vision care.

Provides financial & medical assistance to dependent children (and their caretaker relative who live with them). who have been deprived of parental support through the absence unemployment or incapacity of their parents.

Provides assistance in obtaining prescriptions for individuals who are uninsured or, for other reasons, cannot afford to pay the market price. Helps qualifying individuals complete and file paperwork for submission to drug manufactors to request medication and provides financial assistance to purchase necessary prescription drugs to individuals who would be in an emergency situation without assistance.

Provides primary care and other medical services. Services include assistance with medications, dental and vision care.

Offers authorization of diagnostic services to evaluate or develop a plan of treatment for children with suspected handicapping conditions and treatment services for children with medically eligible conditions.

Offers financial assistance to help with a variety of medical expenses, such as the cost of prescription drug copays, health insurance premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses for supplies, supplements, and surgeries.

Provides services and programs that focus on children and improving their quality of life, through financial assistance, research and education.

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

Provides medical case management and help with HIV related medical, dental, and mental health visits and payments. The OHDAP (Ohio HIV Drug Assistance program) is also coordinated through our agency. This program provides financial aid for HIV related medications and some medical insurance premium payments and co-pays.

Provides information on workers' and employers' rights and responsibilities under the federal law covering the continuation of health insurance for a minimum of 18 months following certain qualifying events (job loss, reduction in hours, etc) that cause an individual to lose eligibility for coverage. This program is only for employees of US-based public employers, not including the federal government and certain church-related organizations. Continuation coverage is administered by the employer at group rates that are paid by the participant losing eligibility. Handles appeals for those who feel they have been denied coverage unfairly. The Department of Labor covers private sector programs. In Ohio, employers of fewer than 20 employees are covered under a state continuation program administered by the Department of Insurance.

Provides free hospital care for qualifying low-income, uninsured patients of University Hospitals campuses. Services not covered by HCAP are medically unnecessary treatments, transplant services, physician charges, ambulance and patient convenience items (telephone, parking, television, personal items).

Helps provide free eyeglasses to the needy in Plymouth, Shelby and Shiloh area. Does various fundraising events in the area.