Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB

Click here to complete a referral form to participate in the Pathways HUB program.

Please click here for the 2023 Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB Annual Report.

Through collaboration with local partners and community health workers (CHWs), the Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB supports enhancing health outcomes, promoting healthy births, and enabling connections to health & social services for Northwest Ohio residents impacted by social risk factors.

The Pathways HUB system partners with CHWs and other care coordinators employed by clinical and community sites. Through developed care plans, program participants are provided tools to overcome barriers to lead healthier lives. Pathways HUB staff coordinates with various care coordination agencies throughout Northwest Ohio and tracks program results.

Pregnant women need early and regular prenatal care to ensure both mothers and their babies are born full term and at a healthy weight. Not all women have a support system to help care for themselves, manage stress, and receive prenatal care. The Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB regional care coordination system launched in 2007 to combat infant mortality in Lucas County. Since then, low-income pregnant women have been connected to the medical care and social services they need to have full-term, healthy weight babies.

The Pathways HUB expanded in 2015 to address diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions in Lucas County through a three-year Partnerships to Improve Community Health grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additional expansions have followed throughout Northwest Ohio, including established Pathways HUB agencies in Allen, Erie, Hancock, Henry, Ottawa, and Wood counties.