The Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition received a $100,000 grant from the PGA TOUR’s flagship event, THE PLAYERS Championship, to address the area’s high rate of infant mortality. The Coalition will utilize the two-year funding to expand clinical health services to women in the Arlington area, a community with growing infant mortality rates, and provide… Read More

For first-time mothers, the sight of a nurse on the doorstep after a sleepless night with a newborn can be like a small miracle. The Northeast Florida team has worked diligently to holistically build happier and healthier babies and mothers through the evidence-based home visiting program. For more than seven years our team, through home… Read More

The Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee voted to add infant mortality to the list of priorities in its strategic plan at a meeting Tuesday, January 7, 2020. The Finance Committee is responsible for updating the strategic plan. Councilman Ron Salem made the suggestion. The committee agreed to add an item to their three-year goals to… Read More

The Healthy Start Coalition has partnered with local child welfare organizations to implement the Plan of Safe Care locally for substance-exposed newborns. The Coalition has worked as part of the Early Childhood Court Steering Committee to develop local protocols and joined with the Florida Department of Children & Families and Family Support Services of North… Read More

Exclusive breastfeeding rates during new mothers’ hospital stays varied significantly by facility in Northeast Florida in 2015, according to quarterly data released by the Northeast Florida Breastfeeding Collaborative. Approximately 75 percent of moms that delivered at Baby-Friendly Hospitals breastfed exclusively, compared to less than 30 percent of moms at UF Health Jacksonville. Click here to… Read More