Girlfriendology interviews JUDITH VAN GINKEL, author "Life begins and ends with girlfriends"

Welcome Dr. Judith Van Ginkel to this Girlfriendology podcast!

Today’s guest Dr. Judith Van Ginkel defines a “life lived to its fullest.” In fact, we could talk with this Girlfriendology podcast guest for an entire series.

So today, we’re going to talk to Dr. VanGinkel about one, small, but very tasty slice of her life - girlfriends - and in particular, how they provided the inspiration for her popular book, Life Begins and Ends with Girlfriends.

Life begins and ends with Girlfriends, by Judith Van Ginkel and Betsy Kyte Newman

First, some background on our Girlfriendology podcast guest. Dr. Van Ginkel has a distinguished career as a champion for women’s and children’s health and for supporting program initiatives with sound research. She is presently professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and president of Every Child Succeeds (ECS), an $8M home visitation program she spearheaded with three founding partners: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, and the Hamilton County Community Action Agency/Head Start.

ECS is a regional prevention program that is based upon the knowledge that early brain stimulation is critically important for a child’s long-term development. The program serves first-time, high-risk mothers and their infants from the prenatal period until the child is three years old.

During the first nine years of operation, Every Child Succeeds has served more than 13,700 mothers and babies with over 268,000 home visits. A unique feature of ECS is the combination of outstanding service delivery with extensive and robust research. Excellent program operation and outcomes are documented and analyzed through the eECS web-based evaluation system and the ECS business-oriented, continuous quality improvement strategies. ECS receives national recognition on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, in the New York Times and Pediatrics and as a recipient of the National American Hospital Association NOVA award.

An innovative strategist and leader, Van Ginkel has been instrumental in establishing public policy on social service issues and health care. Examples include obtaining funding for a biomedical incubator at the University of Cincinnati that is creating products for the commercial market, chairing three successful health services levy campaigns, yielding $410 million, and turning around Drake Center, a failing, old established Cincinnati institution for long-term care.

In this podcast for women, Judy talked with Girlfriendology about her book and the wonderful lessons of girlfriends. Thanks for your great girlfriend insight!

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