Mattie Parker: “Our infant mortality rates are also incredibly troubling.”

“I talked about this last week at State of the City, but at a high level, I'll give you the why Tarrant county today has the highest level of maternal mortality in the 76104 zip code in the entire state of Texas. And Our infant mortality rates are also incredibly troubling. Yet here we are in one of these thriving metro regions across the country with incredible health care services, and we weren't asking the question as to why.” (20:47–20:51)

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