Healthy Beginnings

Katelyn McSweeney is proud to serve as a social worker in Signature Healthcare’s Center for Health Beginnings.  It’s a program designed to create better outcomes for mothers and their newborns.   Get to know Katelyn and the services the Center provides for the community in this enlightening blogger profile.

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

By Katelyn McSweeney, LSCW — Social Worker, Healthy Beginnings Racial and ethnic minority populations throughout the United States experience higher rates of death and disease across a wide range of health conditions when compared with their white counterparts. Hispanic men and women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with and die from liver and … More July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

Celebrating Black Maternal Health Week

By Katelyn McSweeney, Social Worker, Signature Healthcare Last month, we at Signature Healthcare celebrated Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) from April 11–17. I didn’t get a chance to write about it in April, but it’s so important that one week per year isn’t really enough.  We celebrate this week to raise awareness of racial inequities … More Celebrating Black Maternal Health Week