Lynwood : $1-Million Grant to Provide Clinics for ‘At-Risk’ Babies
A two-year, $1-million grant will fund a maternal and child health care center at St. Francis Medical Center and will help pay for two other clinics in the Southeast area for indigent mothers and their infants.
The new center and its satellite clinics will provide prenatal, perinatal and a year of postnatal care for about 1,500 infants born “at risk” at the hospital, including low birth-weight and drug-addicted babies, officials said. Fifteen percent of those newborns require intensive care immediately after birth.
The satellite clinics will be located in Huntington Park and the Downey-Paramount area after the first of the year.
The grant, from the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation in Los Angeles, is the largest ever awarded to the hospital, spokeswoman Tracy Blake said.
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