{"id":191937,"date":"2026-02-24T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191937\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:33:10","slug":"sfs-strong-starts-initiative-aims-to-reduce-preterm-births-and-infant-mortality-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191937\/","title":{"rendered":"SF\u2019s \u2018Strong Starts\u2019 initiative aims to reduce preterm births and infant mortality \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and several supervisors announced Monday a plan to address maternal and infant health.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/news-mayor-lurie-launches-strong-starts-another-major-step-to-support-san-francisco-kids-and-families\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strong Starts<\/a> initiative aims to get different city departments to move forward with the common goal of reducing preterm birth rates and infant mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Lurie said San Francisco spends more than $20 million on maternal and infant care per year, but the outcomes are not the same for the city&#8217;s diverse communities, like Native American, Pacific Islander and Black communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In San Francisco, Black babies are born preterm at nearly twice the city average and make up 20% of infant deaths despite accounting for only 4% of all births,&#8221; Lurie said. &#8220;That is unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a looming budget deficit, Lurie said part of the work will be securing state and federal funding to address healthcare, housing, food security &#8212; all issues that impact a baby&#8217;s first year.<\/p>\n<p>The work will also involve setting goals across different departments to align priorities and gathering data to examine how all funds are spent and how services are delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and several supervisors announced Monday a plan to address maternal and infant health.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-191937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}