Healthy Babies, Healthy Business:
Cutting Costs and Reducing Premature Birth Rates
NCF co-hosted an event with the March of Dimes to raise awareness of premature birth and pediatric health. This event served to educate how preterm birth is a significant public health issue and how it impacts businesses and employer health plans.
Discussions included the costs of maternal-infant health, both for normal outcomes and negative outcomes, and the 14 standards that support maternal and infant health. Learn more about the March of Dimes mission, resources, and relationship opportunities.
Speakers Included:
According to a report by the March of Dimes, one in 8 babies are born preterm, and health care expenditures for many of these infants far exceed those for full term infants, expenditures for health care services during the first year of life averaged $41,610 compared with $2,830 for a baby born healthy and full term.
Click here to watch a webcast of the event.
Click here to read an article on this event from U.S. News.
For more information please contact Andrew Bird at (202) 463-5500 or ncfevents@uschamber.com
Thank you to our event sponsor:
Thank you to our media sponsor:
Thank you to our Marketing Partner:
American Hospital Association
American Public Health Association
United Way
National Association of Neonatal Nurses
