Outgoing Coalition Executive Director Carol Brady has been featured in the “Faces of FIMR” spotlight in the National Fetal & Infant Mortality Review Spring 2013 newsletter. The article highlights how using the FIMR process in Northeast Florida has shaped how the Coalition addresses poor birth outcomes and infant mortality. FIMR examines cases with the worst outcomes to identify gaps… Read More
Thank you to everyone who came out Saturday, April 27 to walk with the Healthy Start Coalition for the 2013 First Coast March for Babies! More than 30 Coalition staff, Preconception Peer Educators and 4Me Teen Health Project facilitators, teen participants and parents walked the 1.5 mile route at Everbank Bank in honor of Northeast Florida babies.
Several years after completing an education and awareness campaign around black infant mortality, staff reported to the Coalition membership at the April 18 meeting on how they have taken the initiative to the next step: building community capacity to address infant mortality. Faye Johnson, Magnolia Project Director, presented one of the newest initiatives, the Make a… Read More
Coalition Board members, staff and community leaders participated in the 14th Annual Spring Conference of the National Healthy Start Association (NHSA) April 6-9 in Washington, DC. This year’s conference highlighted opportunities for advocacy expanding health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Joy Burgess, RN, MSN, chair of the Coalition’s Community Advocacy and Public… Read More
Confused about options currently being considered by the Florida Legislature for expanding health care coverage to the uninsured? The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy has put together a side-by-side comparison of the plans. Both the Senate and House have rejected the option of expanding Medicaid as a strategy for extending coverage to uninsured… Read More