Get a check-up with your PCP at least once a year to help keep you healthy. Need to find a PCP or change your provider? Contact Neighborhood Member Services or use our Provider Directory tool to search.
Getting regular wellness screenings is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. People can have health problems but not know about them. Finding problems when they are small is much better than finding them when they are big. Ask your PCP what wellness screenings you should have.
Wellness Screenings
You should discuss the following screenings with your provider:
- Blood pressure
- Cholesterol
- Blood glucose
- Colonoscopy (colorectal cancer screening)
Quit smoking
Neighborhood wants you to be healthy by quitting smoking. Visit our Quit Smoking resource page for more information.
Don’t forget: when you go to your annual check-up with your PCP, you may be eligible for a gift card through Neighborhood REWARDS.
Women’s Health
Women need specific health screenings to stay healthy. Talk to your provider about the following screenings:
- Pap smear (cervical cancer)
- Mammogram (breast cancer)
- Chlamydia (a sexually transmitted infection dangerous for women)
- Colonoscopy (colorectal cancer)
If you are pregnant or planning to have a baby, Neighborhood has a program called Bright Start to help you stay healthy throughout your pregnancy and after the baby is born. Through this program, you may be eligible for gift cards for completing certain health screenings. Learn more about the Bright Start program.
To find out more about women’s health, visit The Office of Women’s Health.
Men’s Health
Men need specific health screenings to stay healthy. Talk to your provider about the following screenings:
- Prostate exam (prostate cancer)
- Colonoscopy (colorectal cancer)
To find out more about men’s health, visit Medline Plus.
Rhode Island School-Based Health Centers
You can get health care at school with a School-Based Health Center!
It’s easy for your student to get health care services during school hours at a School-Based Health Center or a Health Hut.
This means there is no need for you to take time out of your day to bring them to a health care visit!
School-Based Health Centers and Health Huts can provide students with:
- Physical exams, including school and sports physicals
- Vaccines
- Sick visits
- Treatment of chronic illnesses, like diabetes and asthma
- Mental and behavioral health services
- Health education & screenings
Information for Parents:
- School-based health centers make getting health care easy for students.
- They don’t have to leave school to get health care.
- They don’t need to have insurance to get services.
- Taking care of their health needs means they are better able to learn.
- Students need your permission to go to a school-based health center.
- If you have insurance, ask your health plan to register your child’s school-based health center as their primary care provider (PCP).
- By Rhode Island law, students can get confidential, emergency care without a parent’s consent. This includes care for:
- sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like HIV
- exams for physical or sexual abuse
- substance use
Students who get these services are given counseling about their health and how they can talk to their parents about their problems.
- Parents/Guardians must fill out a consent form and return it to the school before your student can get health care.
Below is a list of the nine licensed School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) in Rhode Island: Find Licenses: Department of Health (ri.gov)
- Calcutt Middle School Smart Health and Wellness Center
- Capitol Hill Health Center
- Central Falls High School Clinic
- Providence Community Health Center at George J West
- The Providence Community Health Centers/Prairie Avenue Health Center
- Veterans Memorial Elementary School Smart Health and Wellness Center
- West Warwick Health Hut
- Woonsocket High School Villa Nova Health Hut
- Woonsocket Middle School Health Hut Villa Nova
Provider visits are not only for when your teen is sick. Teens need to get a check-up with their PCP at least once a year to stay healthy. These visits give the provider, the parent and the teen a chance to ask questions or talk about any concerns. Teens also need immunizations and screenings.
Teen Immunizations Needed
It’s recommended that teens receive the following immunizations:
- HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccine – this helps protect against cancers caused by HPV infection.
- Meningococcal Vaccines – this helps protect against the bacteria that causes meningococcal disease.
- Tdap – this helps protect against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough).
- Flu vaccine – this helps protect your child from getting sick with seasonal flu.
For additional teen health information, visit Kids Health.
Don’t forget: when your teen goes to their annual check-up with their PCP, they may be eligible for a gift card through Neighborhood REWARDS.
Provider visits are not only for when your child is sick. Check-ups give your child’s provider the chance to do important tests and developmental screenings to make sure your child is healthy.
When children are younger they need to be seen by their provider more often. View the well-visit schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Don’t forget! When your child goes to their annual check-up with their PCP, they may be eligible for a gift card through Neighborhood REWARDS.
Immunizations
It is always better to prevent a disease than to get the disease then try to treat it. That is why immunizations are so important. They protect your child from serious childhood diseases and help keep them healthy. For more information, visit the We Want Kids to be Well page.
It’s recommended that your child receives the following Immunizations:
- Varicella – this helps protect your child from getting the Chickenpox
- Hep A – this helps protect your child from getting Hepatitis A
- DTap – this helps protect your child from getting tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough).
- Flu vaccine – this helps protect your child from getting sick with seasonal flu.
- And many more. To see the full list of recommended vaccines and when your child should receive them, view the immunizations schedule from the CDC.
Your child may be eligible for gift cards for getting certain health visits and immunizations through Neighborhood REWARDS program.
Developmental Screening
Taking a first step, waving “bye-bye,” and pointing to something interesting are all developmental milestones, or things most children can do by a certain age. Children reach many milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act and move. Developmental monitoring and screening are ways to look for your child’s developmental milestones. Use the App below to track your child’s milestones from 2 months – 5 years old.
For more information, visit the CDC Website and download the Milestone Tracker App.
Lead Screening
Because lead poisoning often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it can be easily missed. It is important that every child be screened for lead at least once by their 1st birthday.
Neighborhood sends every member child a postcard the month before their 1st birthday to remind parents to have their child screened for lead. Look out for a birthday message from us and schedule your child’s appointment to be tested for lead. Also, by completing this healthy behavior, your child could be eligible for a gift card through Neighborhood REWARDS!
For more information and resources for lead, visit the Rhode Island Department of Health website.
Services for mental health and substance use are called “Behavioral Health Services.”
Neighborhood offers excellent behavioral health services, which are managed by our partner Optum®.
Choose your plan below for more information about behavioral health services and resources:
- Medicaid plans
- INTEGRITY (Medicare-Medicaid Plan)
- Commercial plans
Neighborhood is here to help – We want our members to be healthy and have the information they need. Below you will find information regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and local resources.
COVID-19 Vaccination
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
For the best protection, everyone 6 months and older is recommended to stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines, which includes getting boosters when eligible.
For additional information and common FAQs, visit RI COVID-19 Information Portal.
Where to find support
- For the most up to date resources related to food assistance, prescription delivery, internet access for distance learning, information for seniors and veterans, and other programs please go to United Way of Rhode Island’s Community Resource page that is updated daily or call 2-11.
COVID-19 Test Kits
Medicaid members: Neighborhood covers 6 test kits per calendar month at network pharmacies with a prescription from your provider.
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