Nurse Visit at Home
Support for Your Family After Baby’s Arrival
We offer all Frederick County families a visit at home with a well-trained nurse -- at no cost -- three weeks after the baby’s arrival.
Families receive wellness visits and personalized resources for the birthing parent and baby.
This is Family Connects Frederick County.
What to Expect
- Visits at home with a trained nurse
- For all families with a newborn
- 3 Weeks after your baby's arrival
- No cost to families
All Frederick County families who deliver at Frederick Health receive*:
- A visit scheduled before the family leaves the hospital
- A 1.5-2 hour visit at home with a trained nurse
- Wellness visits for the birthing parent and baby
- Personalized resources for the family for lactation, nutrition, child care, health care, and more
Nurses use interpreter services to care for families who speak languages other than English.
Our Team of Nurses
Our team of nurses knows how to support families right after the baby’s arrival. With years of experience caring for newborns and birthing parents, they help each family find solutions and resources that work for them.
For immediate concerns, our nurses can connect with expert colleagues during the visit and will help a family determine when to contact their own or the baby’s health care provider.
Have questions?
Click here to view our Nursing Visit FAQs
Care for Newborns & Birthing Parents
Our nurses are experienced in caring for newborns and birthing parents. We support your healing and the essential bonding between newborns and their families.
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Contact Us
Click here to fill out a Contact Form to learn more about how we can support your family after the baby’s arrival.
If this is an emergency, please contact your provider or 911. We will respond to your inquiry within several business days.
Program Phone Number: 240-566-4240
All Frederick Health Services
- Anticoagulation Clinic
- Behavioral Health
- Birth Place
- Breast Cancer
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- Cancer Care - Conditions & Treatments
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- Cardiac Catheterization & Electrophysiology Lab
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Care Clinic
- Colorectal Cancer
- CyberKnife Stereotactic Radiosurgery System
- Dental Clinic
- Diabetes
- Ear, Nose & Throat
- Emergency Services
- Employer Solutions
- Endocrine & Thyroid
- Forensic Nursing
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Heart Care
- Home Care
- Hospice
- Hospitalists
- Imaging
- Infusion Therapy
- Interventional Cardiology
- Laboratory
- Leukemia Lymphoma
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- Medical Group
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- Medical Weight Loss
- Neurosciences
- Nursing
- Oncology & Hematology
- Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
- Ovarian Cancer
- Pediatric Care
- Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab
- Precision Medicine & Genetics
- Prenatal Clinic
- Primary Care
- ProMotion Fitness
- Prostate & Urological Cancer
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Pulmonary Rehab
- Radiation Oncology
- Skin Cancer
- Sleep Medicine
- Smoking Cessation Program
- Stroke Care
- Stroke Program
- Substance Use
- Supportive & Geriatric Care
- Surgical Care
- Surgical Oncology
- Urgent Care
- Urology
- Vascular
- Virtual Visit
- Walk-in Radiology
- Women's Health
- Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine
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