Shelby County to launch Healthy Start to improve maternal, infant health
Certified nurse midwife Kate Fouquier listens to the vitals of a patient who is 22-weeks pregnant at a Regional One Health primary-care facility in Memphis July 12, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Regional One Health and the Shelby County Health Department will both launch Healthy Start programs with federal funding to improve maternal and child health outcomes in high-need communities.
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maternal mortality Regional One Health Shelby County Health DepartmentAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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