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1994.10.07 :  Grants to Reduce High Infant Mortality

Contact:  Patricia Campbell (HRSA)     (301) 443-3376                                            
Friday, Oct. 7, 1994

              SEVEN COMMUNITIES WIN GRANTS TO REDUCE HIGH
                         INFANT MORTALITY

     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the award of $7
million in new Healthy Start grants to seven additional communities
with high infant mortality rates.  The areas are in Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.

     Secretary Shalala said, "I am pleased that the federal
government can help these communities that have the will and the
involvement to launch programs that can lower their high infant
mortality rates."

     Like the original 15 communities targeted beginning in 1991,
the seven new grantee communities have infant mortality rates at
least 50 percent higher than the nation as a whole.  Like the
original group, they had to show a community-wide commitment to
reduce their high rates through innovation, improved access to
prenatal care and other efforts.

     The 15 communities selected in 1991 will be receiving
continuation grants soon, according to the Health Resources and
Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau, which
administers the grants in this Healthy Start Initiative.

     The new grants are for two years.  The seven new grantees and
their funding levels are:

Grantee                                                     Funding

Dallas County Hospital District, Dallas, Texas           $   997,653
New Jersey Dept. of Health, Essex County, N.J.             1,000,000
Florida State University Center for Prevention &
 Early Intervention Policy, Fla. Panhandle                   978,510
City of Milwaukee Health Dept., Milwaukee, Wis.            1,000,000
Miss. Primary Health Care Assoc., Mississippi Delta          982,200
Richmond City Health Department, Richmond, Va.             1,000,000
Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority, Savannah, Ga.      960,684

TOTAL                                                     $6,919,047
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