Health and Wellness

As a Health Share member, you are eligible for all benefits covered by the Oregon Health Plan (OHP), at no cost. Your benefits include primary care services, doctor visits, prescription drugs, pregnancy care, some vision services, and more.

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Staying Healthy with Preventative Care

Preventative care means seeing a doctor before you feel sick. It helps catch problems early and keeps you feeling your best. This includes things like check-ups, shots, and screenings.

These visits are free with your health plan. Going to the doctor for regular care can help you stay healthy and avoid bigger problems later.

Preventative Care Helps You Stay Healthy

Getting a check-up every year and doing health tests at the right time can help you stay well. When you see your doctor regularly, they can tell you when to get tested to help catch problems early, like cancer or heart disease.

Preventative Care for Adults

Adults should get a check-up once a year. They can also get tests, flu shots, and vaccines to help prevent illness before it starts.

Here are some common tests adults may need, depending on age and health risks:

  • Heart health tests (blood pressure, cholesterol)

  • Cancer screenings (colon, lungs)

  • Sexual health check-ups

  • Diabetes tests

Talk to your doctor to learn which tests and preventative care are right for you.

Well Child Visits

Yearly check-ups with your child's doctor are important for good health. These appointments are called a Well-Child or Adolescent Well Care visit.

Every year at the well-child visit, the doctor may:

  • Review your child’s health history and check height, weight, and eyesight.

  • Check your child’s physical and emotional health.

  • Give routine vaccines.

  • Answer your questions, share advice for how to stay healthy, give options and resources for any health issues.

Kids and teens should see their doctor regularly, and their full benefits are covered until they are 21. Well-Child visits are free for Health Share members and most insurance plans.

Childhood Vaccines

Vaccines are an important part of the yearly, well-child exam. Vaccines protect babies, kids, teens, and entire communities from serious diseases.

Vaccines help

  • Young children build stronger immune systems (the body’s way of fighting germs)

  • Get kids ready to go start preschool and kindergarten

  • Prevent some cancers

To learn more about how vaccines work and how safe they are, visit Boost Oregon’s website here. They also have tips on how to calm your child, parent resources, and stories of other parents.

Health During Pregnancy

Pregnancy Benefits

If you are pregnant, the Oregon Health Plan gives you extra services to help keep you and your baby healthy. 

Pregnancy benefits cover

  • Birth or delivery of baby

  • Traditional Health Worker services like Birthing Doulas

  • Free eye glasses and extra dental care

  • One full year of care, no matter how the pregnancy ends

If you are pregnant, call Oregon Health Plan and tell them the following

  • When your baby is due (you don’t need the exact date)

  • If you’re about to have your baby, call right away

  • Ask about other pregnancy benefits available to you at no cost

  • Ask about how to get Oregon Health Plan for your baby after they are born

Call 800-699-9075 (TTY 711) or login to your online account at ONE.Oregon.gov.

Pregnancy Supports

Birth Doula

You can get support from a Birth Doula. A Birth Doula is a person who helps people and their families with personal, non-medical support with pregnancy, childbirth, and after the baby is born. To learn more, contact your health plan

Project Nurture

Project Nurture is program for people who are pregnant and use substances such as drugs or alcohol, or have used them before. It offers health care, addiction treatment, advocacy and support. It is centered around peer support, staying safe and trauma-informed care. 

Visit our Project Nurture page to learn more.

Support for Children, Teens,
and Family

Help Me Grow

Help Me Grow Oregon is a free helpline that helps parents find resources they need to support the growth and development of young children.

Call the Help Me Grow helpline for support to find:

  • Doctors and places to get care

  • Fun learning activities for kids from birth to age 5

  • Classes and groups to help support parents  

  • Help with food, electricity, and other basic needs

  • Services for kids with disabilities or autism  

Contact Help Me Grow

Call 833-868-4769 or 503-215-2429

Email hello@helpmegroworegon.org

Every Step Clinics for Foster Care Kids

Every Step Health Clinics support the health and well-being of kids in foster care. Children who get care from an Every Step clinic have their own team of nurses, doctors, social workers and specialists who understand the needs of foster youth and families. 

Services available from Every Step Clinics:

  • Coordination of medical, dental and mental health care

  • Coordination between case workers and agencies

  • Mental health care at the clinic, including classes for foster parents about trauma

  • Help for youth aging out of foster care

  • Help for birth families and adoptive families

Contact our customer service team at 503-416-8090. The toll-free number is 888-519-3845 and our TTY/TDD number is 711.

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