Welcome back everyone. It is a startling statistic about our precious babies 147 little ones
here in northeast Florida.
Never saw their first birthday
and
2018. Every year project impact
looks at why these babies die
taking a look at factors before
and after they’re born
so this just released report
shows last year’s infant
mortality rate in our area was
higher than both the state and
national average nearly 8
that’s where report it right
about that for every 1000 live
births. Now the state average
is 6. And the national average
a little lower than that.
So Aaron addington with the
Northeast Florida, healthy
start coalition is joining us
now to unpack these numbers.
You guys work with making sure
that moms are healthy the
babies are healthy, you said
these numbers really weren’t
that surprising.
>> No they it basically
confirmed a lot of what we
already I think what was most
important though to give us a
clear picture of why are babies
are dying in what we need to do
to ensure that they do live to
see their first birthday
where these numbers higher than
years prior or worse we’ve
always been a little high here
in northeast Florida.
>> I’m so in the last 30 years
we’ve seen a lot of improvement
in terms of infant mortality.
>> Last couple of years we’ve
seen our rates agney in so
that’s why it was important for
us to take a look at what was
going on because maybe what
we’ve been doing in the past is
not working or maybe we need to
take
some new approaches to to see
these babies live and there are
a lot of reasons
and what’s affecting the babies
and even starts before they’re
born. Yes that is Most of our
babies are 2 airport too small
and too soon.
a lot of them don’t even have
an opportunity to
live a arma they experience
complications after they’re
born premature and that’s
impacted by mom’s health before
she gets pregnant.
That’s impacted by things that
going to go on during the
pregnancy. So there’s a lot of
work we need to do to ensure
these babies actually the first
birthday and no Northeast
Florida, healthy start has AM
project Magnolia really works
with Mom um’s
I mean even women before they
even think about having
children and the idea is that
plan it out and that was one of
the key take away is from
the study.
that’s right you may know I
worked with moms before they
get pregnant um and after
pregnancy to ensure that there.
>> They’ve got a good amount of
time in between the next birth.
But there’s a lot of things
that we can do in terms of
making sure monitor healthy.
They’re addressing any chronic
illnesses they have
that there they’ve got stable
housing that the kratt safe
housing that they have
transportation access. The
House insurance things like
that and the key I think one of
the key take away was the
fragmented
health care.
>> That mom has to go here here
and here a lot of time
transportation is an issue you
can kind of House that one
space and that helps mom to be
healthy and ultimately the baby
that’s definitely something
that we look at what we’re
doing this. I’m not just
looking at the data but
developing recommendations of
what we can do.
Developing medical homes for
families
looking at. Medical one-stop
shops, not just for medical
services but also for social
services and really the medical
and social services that so
that they’re not working in a
fragmented way a lot of people
came to the table
to make this happen any the
pledges any future
collaboration is help to
address some of
these issues so that just tells
us how Jacksonville and Florida
blue funded this study that
we did and they are definitely
committed worker this going
forward to look at these
recommendatis and how we can
make morality was 31 thing that
kind of stood out that you can
see being implemented that will
make the biggest difference.
I’m definitely looking at how
we can get everything in one
place for these families so
that they’re not going all over
the place was definitely a big
thing that came out of this and
then also
working on our home visitation
programs and getting families
into services and engaging them
long term and those services so
that we can assist them and if
someone’s watching today and
they want to know more you
know, either they’re not
pregnant or you just don’t
maybe have access to health
care. I think there’s some
great options for them where
can they learn more about these
resources. Definitely our Web
site has a lot of information
for. Preconception women,
pregnant women death
and infants and so Northeast
Florida healthy start coalition
doing good work in the
community making sure that our
ABC the first birthday,
be curious to see what comes