Resources for our Members

Community Health Choice Programs

Care Management Program

Our Care Management Program helps you manage your health.

We focus on asthma, weight management, diabetes, and high-risk pregnancies. For more information, call Member Services at 1.888.760.2600.

Take charge of your health with these resources from Community!

Take our online Health Risk Assessment to see if you have any potential health issues. We’ll review it and contact you if we see any potential issues. You can also share these results with your Provider to better coordinate your care.

Other Resources

Text4baby App

The free Text4baby app helps you stay healthy during your pregnancy. You can receive free reminder texts for things like labor sign and symptoms, prenatal care appointments, urgent notices, and more. You can also set up text alerts for all your baby’s healthcare needs until baby’s first birthday.

Well-Visit Planner

The Well-Visit Planner is a personalized visit guide for children ages 4 months to 6 years old.

Learn more at the Well-Visit Planner website.

Member Mammogram Resources

If you fall under these groups, these tools are designed to help you decide if you want to start having mammograms and how often you might have them. These can also help you discuss screening options with your provider

State Case Management Programs

Case Management for Children and Pregnant Women

Need help finding and getting services? A case manager might be able to help you. Who can get a case manager? Children, teens, young adults (birth through age 20), and pregnant women who get Medicaid and:

Have health problems
Are at a high risk for getting health problems

Call our Member Services toll-free at 1.888.760.2600 to request services.

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

WIC is a nutrition program for women, infants, and children. WIC helps pregnant women and new mothers learn more about food, breastfeeding, formulas, nutrition, and healthy eating. WIC may help by giving WIC vouchers for healthy foods. Call our Member Services toll-free at 1.888.760.2600 to find a WIC office near you.

Learn more about WIC.

Early Childhood Intervention (ECI)

ECI is a statewide program for children (ages three and under) with disabilities and developmental delays. If you are worried about how your baby is growing and learning, ECI can help you. ECI provides families with developmental services that help their children reach their potential.

You can find an ECI Provider near you by calling the Texas Health and Human Services Commission toll-free at 1.877.787.8999 (TTY 711) or by visiting Early Childhood Intervention Services. If you go to an ECI Provider, please remember to tell your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) about the ECI care your child receives to ensure continuity of care.

Case Management for Children and Pregnant Women

Have health problems
Are at a high risk for getting health problems

Call our Member Services toll-free at 1.888.760.2600 to request services.

Smoking and Vaping Cessation Education Program

It’s never too late to quit smoking. Quitting smoking now improves your health and reduces your risk of heart disease, cancer, lung disease, and other smoking-related illnesses. The health benefits of quitting smoking can help most of the major parts of your body: from your brain to your DNA. We know quitting tobacco is hard. But the more you prepare yourself, the more likely you are to quit for good. Learn how to make and stick to a quit plan and how medications and other options can help you on your journey. Let’s get started!

Resources Guide

Adults

Benefits of Quitting Smoking:

It’s never too late to quit using tobacco. The sooner you quit, the more you can reduce your chances of getting cancer and other diseases.

Health Advantages of quitting smoking

Quitting smoking cuts cardiovascular risks. Just 1 year after quitting smoking, your risk for a heart attack drops sharply.
Within 2 to 5 years after quitting smoking, your risk for stroke may reduce to about that of a nonsmoker’s.
If you quit smoking, your risks for cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder drop by half within 5 years.
Ten years after you quit smoking, your risk for dying from lung cancer drops by half.

Timeline to Recovery after Quitting Smoking:

20 minutes after quitting: Your heart rate and blood pressure drop.

A few days after quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal.

2 weeks to 3 months after quitting-: Your circulation improves, and your lung function increases.

1 to 12 months after quitting: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease. Tiny hair-like structures (called cilia) that move mucus out of the lungs start to regain normal function, increasing their ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce the risk of infection.

1 to 2 years after quitting: Your risk of heart attack drops dramatically.

5 to 10 years after quitting: Your risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, and voice box (larynx) is cut in half. Your stroke risk decreases.

10 years after quitting: Your risk of lung cancer is about half that of a person who is still smoking (after 10 to 15 years). Your risk of cancer of the bladder, esophagus, and kidney decreases

15 years after quitting: Your risk of coronary heart disease is close to that of a non-smoker.

Quitting smoking can also add as much as 10 years to your life, compared to if you continued to smoke. Quitting while you’re younger can reduce your health risks more (for example, quitting before the age of 40 reduces the risk of dying from smoking-related disease by about 90%), but quitting at any age can give back years of life that would be lost by continuing to smoke. Video: https://youtu.be/JrDkqfKmi4o

Helpful tips to fight the urge to smoke

Find safe and healthy substitutes for cigarettes such as brushing your teeth, chewing gum, eating a dill pickle/tart candy, drinking water etc…

Adjust your medicine.

Make your environment work for you and distract yourself with support.

You can gradually decrease the amount of nicotine that you get from NRT over several weeks. Your brain will get used to working without so much nicotine. And you will figure out how to get through the day without smoking.

Free Coaching Resources for Smoking and Vaping Cessation:

QuitSTART APP

1-800-QUIT-NOW
(1-800-784-8669)

In Spanish:

1-855-DÉJELO-YA
(1-855-335-3569)

Texas Quitline Program:

A program offered by the Texas Department of State Health Services. FREE confidential phone counseling services are available 24/7 along with resources such as nicotine patches, gums, or lozenges which may be free to those who qualify.

To apply, please visit www.quitnow.net or call 1.877.YES.QUIT (1.877.937.7848)

For more information, call the Texas Quitline at 1.877.YES.QUIT. (1.877.937.7848) or visit yesquit.org

Become an Ex:

An online social community, where individuals can receive tips and advice through text and email, expert guidance, and interactive tools to help them quit and stay quit. To enroll in BecomeanEX, register online: https://www.becomeanex.org/create-profile/

Smoking Cessation Aids:

Talk to your doctor about quitting smoking or vaping. Your doctor can prescribe to you free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) works by replacing some of the nicotine you used to get from cigarettes, so you don’t feel as uncomfortable after quitting. Smoking Cessation medicines are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and are covered benefits by Community Health Choice such as: Bupropion, Nicotine patches,

Nicorette gum, Nicorette lozenges, or Nicotine Kits

are the most common quit-smoking aides.

MD Anderson:

MDAnderson ASPIRE: Free Self-paced Online resource visit: https://aspire2.mdanderson.org/

Learn more about the program: https://www.mdanderson.org/about-md-anderson/community-services/aspire.html