HomeMy WebLinkAbout14-050RESOLUTION NO. 14-050
A RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING "SYLVIE KRAMER MARCEAU" FOR HER WORK IN THE FIELD
OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida, has made the
following determinations:
1. During the first full week in April of each year, the American Public Health Association brings
together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to
recognize the contributions of public health.
2. This National Public Health Week, we commemorate and recognize a Public Health Hero,
"Sylvie Kramer Marceau" for her passion and tenacious leadership that literally transformed a
maternal child health system for moms and babies in St. Lucie County.
3. Sylvie began her work in the field of maternal and child health in St. Lucie County in 1991 as
a faculty member of the University of South Florida, College of Public Health, where she was assigned
to the St. Lucie County Health Department to examine the delivery of health services to pregnant
women and infants with poor outcomes, poor access to care and high rates of infant morbidity and
mortality.
4. After implementing an effective and efficient obstetric delivery system, the County saved
millions of dollars.
5. In the year 2000, Sylvie founded the Healthy Start Coalition of St. Lucie County and Kids
Connected by Design (KCBD), an umbrella organization that tied together three organizations
involved with the care of women, babies and children, the Healthy Start Coalition, Healthy Families
and Healthy Kids.
6. Sylvie increased access to pre-natal care, teen births dropped significantly, mother-to-baby
transmission of HIV went from 30 percent to zero and infant mortality rates dropped from a high of
11.7% in 1993 to 4.7% in 2011.
7. Sylvie passed away in 2011, but her legacy lives on through the work of 15 programs operating
under the Kids Connected by Design umbrella. These programs serve over 16,500 children and
families a year.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie
County, Florida that this Board does hereby recognize and appreciate the passion and leadership of
"Sylvie Kramer Marceau" as a Public Health Hero in the field of maternal and child health in St. Lucie
County, Florida.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 15`h day of April 2014.
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