Services & Specialties

CHECK Foster Care

The CHECK (Comprehensive Health Evaluations for Cincinnati’s Kids) Center is here to help with the medical needs of children with child welfare involvement through the CHECK Foster Care Clinic and the CHECK-IN medical consultation service.

In the CHECK Foster Care Clinic, our clinicians are dedicated to helping families by taking a multidisciplinary approach to providing diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to meet the unique medical, dental, behavioral and mental health needs of children in foster care and kinship care in Greater Cincinnati.

The CHECK Foster Care Center is headed by Medical Director Mary Greiner, MD, MS, a professor of pediatrics in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s. CHECK Clinical services are provided by Mary Greiner, MD, MS, Megan Hennigan, MD, Eunice Blackmon, MD, Julie Dversdall, MSN, APRN, CPNP, Molly McHenry, FNP, AAHIV, Diogo Anyigbo, MD, MPH, Julie Bemerer, PsyD, and Megan Radenhausen, PhD, at the Cincinnati Children’s Burnet Campus and the Liberty Campus.

Patient representatives Janae Lucas and Jeanette Williams as well as social workers Tiffany McDonald and Jackie Unkrich assist clinicians and families with obtaining medical history, scheduling specialty appointments, providing social interventions and community resources, and locating and establishing a medical home.

The Scientific Director is Sarah Beal, PhD. Learn about our research.

The CHECK-IN program, co-located at Hamilton County Job and Family Services, provides medical consultation to caseworkers to support families with child welfare involvement. CHECK-IN is led by Medical Director Mary Greiner, MD, MS, and Lead APRN, Julie Dversdall, MSN, APRN, CPNP.