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BACKGROUND: The Cardinal Health Foundation has granted funds to the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation in support of Baby and Me Tobacco Free program at Columbus Public Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $50,000.00 in grant monies for the period of June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.
The Cardinal Grant program will support initiatives of the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Program, funded in part by the Ohio Department of Health Moms Quit for Two grant program and the Central Ohio Hospital Council Ohio Better Birth Outcomes collaboration grant program at Columbus Public Health. The Baby and Me Tobacco Free program aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce low birth weights and preterm birth rates, and increase overall quit rates as part of a larger strategy to reduce infant mortality.
Since 2014, the Baby & Me Tobacco Free Program at CPH has had a direct impact on infant mortality in Franklin County, and has unequivocally become the largest in Ohio with over 203 enrolled; this represents a 434% increase in volume from year one. In 2018, 90% of the babies delivered in the CPH program were full term and healthy, with 95% of participants remaining smoke-free through the baby’s first year of life.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so a delay in service does not occur since the grant starts June 1, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Baby and Me Tobacco Free Cardinal grant is fully funded ($50,000.00) by The Cardinal Health Foundation and does not require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation on behalf of the Cardinal Health Foundation to fund the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Cardinal grant program in the amount of $50,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $50,000.00 to the Health Department in the Health Department’s Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $50,...
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