City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0252R

• File #: 11-0252R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Baltimore Healthy Start, Inc.
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 2/7/2011
• In control: City Council
• Title: Informational Hearing - Baltimore Healthy Start, Inc. FOR the purpose of requesting the Health Commissioner and the CEO of Baltimore Healthy Start, Inc., to brief the City Council on the contributions of the organization to the health and welfare of the youngest members of Baltimore City communities over the 20 years of its existence, on the catchment areas served by the full service centers and satellite offices, on the services available at each location, and the success of the program in providing prenatal health services to the most disadvantaged women in Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: President Young, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Carl Stokes, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Healthy Start, Inc., Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/10/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/7/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
2/7/2011	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Baltimore Healthy Start, Inc.

FOR the purpose of requesting the Health Commissioner and the CEO of Baltimore Healthy Start, Inc., to brief the City Council on the contributions of the organization to the health and welfare of the youngest members of Baltimore City communities over the 20 years of its existence, on the catchment areas served by the full service centers and satellite offices, on the services available at each location, and the success of the program in providing prenatal health services to the most disadvantaged women in Baltimore City.
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Baltimore Healthy Start is celebrating the 20th year of being the only federally funded infant mortality reduction initiative in the State of Maryland. Through the years the organization has served over 13,000 families, successfully preventing very low birth weight babies and infant mortality, exceeding the Surgeon General’s Healthy People 2010 goal for Very Low Birth Weight of .9% of live births.

Birth weight is the single most important indicator in infant death as 1 in 4, or 25%, of babies born at very low birth weight (less than 3.3 pounds) will die before the age of one. In 2009, there were no infant deaths among Healthy Start clients for the first time in the organization’s history.

In a 2010 press release, Healthy Start’...