{"id":380823,"date":"2022-12-02T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=380823"},"modified":"2022-12-02T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:06:24","slug":"chcc-strengthens-local-capacity-on-reproductive-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chcc-strengthens-local-capacity-on-reproductive-health\/","title":{"rendered":"CHCC strengthens local capacity on reproductive health"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_380826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380826\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Reproductive-Health-pix-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-380826\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Reproductive-Health-pix-1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-380826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. certified nurse midwives, OB\/GYN, and nurse practitioners on Saipan pose with trainers from the Reproductive Health National Training Center. (CHCC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Medical providers, nurses, and clinic support staff on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota recently completed training on Family Planning and Reproductive Health provided through a partnership of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and the Reproductive Health National Training Center.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of an ongoing focus of CHCC for improving the quality of and expanding access to reproductive healthcare and family planning services in CNMI communities.<\/p>\n<p>The training was held from Oct. 29 through Nov. 4, 2022, at the Commonwealth Health Center on Navy Hill on Saipan, Tinian Health Center, and Rota Health Center. A total of 42 healthcare professionals attended the training.<\/p>\n<p>CHCC offers family planning services that assist in preventing or achieving pregnancy. These services are available for women, men, and adolescents, with priority given to persons from low-income families. The services are voluntary, confidential, and provided regardless of one\u2019s ability to pay.<\/p>\n<p>The CHCC Family Planning program provides a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 contraceptive education, counseling, and methods (includes hormonal methods; fertility awareness based methods; barrier methods; abstinence);<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 services centered around pre-conception health and achieving pregnancy (includes infertility services; STI prevention, education, screening, and treatment; HIV testing and referral; and screening for substance use disorders and referrals); and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 pregnancy diagnosis and counseling.<\/p>\n<p>These services are available at the CHCC Women\u2019s Clinic, Tinian Health Center, Rota Health Center and through Mobile Clinic outreach. <em>(CHCC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical providers, nurses, and clinic support staff on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota recently completed training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":380826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[666,55],"class_list":["post-380823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chcc","tag-health-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}