Midwest Infant Hearing Screening, Inc.
Newborn Hearing Screening ... it's the right thing to do.
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Welcome to Midwest Infant Hearing Screening, Inc.
MIHS, Inc. is a mobile hearing screening service dedicated to providing quality, cost effective hearing screening services for infants and young children born in rural Minnesota and Wisconsin.
We strive to provide the best service possible by making hearing screening services available to every child born at each of our contracted facilities in addition to seeing patients in our Blaine Minnesota offices. Our goals are to screen the children by one month of age, referral and follow up for diagnosis by three months of age, and habilitive services initiated for those children identified as hearing impaired by six months of age. More>>>
Facts about hearing loss in children:
- Hearing loss is America's most common birth defect.
- 1 in every 1000 babies is born deaf
- 3-5 of every 1000 babies are born hard of hearing
- In Minnesota, 4 babies are born each week with hearing loss.
- Each year in Minnesota, 200 babies are born deaf or hard of hearing.
- 90% of all babies born deaf or hard of hearing are born to hearing parents.
- Without newborn hearing screening, the average age of identification on children with hearing loss is 2.4 years.
- Hearing loss can be successfully treated.