After years of talking about Guilford County’s stubbornly high infant mortality rate, the Board of Commissioners has decided to stop wringing its hands and start swinging hammers – with a new county task force and a public push that the chairman says won’t let up until the numbers turn around.
The kickoff meeting of the newly established Guilford County Infant Mortality Taskforce is set for Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 4 p.m. in the John H. McAdoo Conference Room on the third floor of the former Truist building at 201 W. Market St. in Greensboro.
The first order of business is to set some goals and figure out why Guilford keeps losing so many children before their first birthday compared to other places…