Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wants every family with a newborn to be offered a free home visit from a nurse, part of a postpartum mental health plan she announced Tuesday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Healey said she will ask lawmakers for $2 million to expand the state's Welcome Family program, which now serves about 3,000 births a year. The goal is to make visits available to families of the roughly 68,000 babies born in Massachusetts each year, according to the Associated Press.
