MILWAUKEE -- The City of Milwaukee getting $200,000 to fight infant mortality.

The United Way presented the mayor with the grant Wednesday afternoon.

It will help pay for a public health nurse and visiting social worker who will target minority neighborhoods where the inant death rate has been tragically high.

This was welcome news to the folks at the MLK Heritage Medical Center which has been a long time provider of care to mothers and their babies.]

The medical professionals here know first hand how sad the statistics are.

"African American babies dies at a rate two to three times highers than white babies. That is not acceptable to me. And it should not be acceptable to anybody in this community," said Mayor Tom Barrett.

Milwaukee was the 7th worst city for infant mortality in a recent survey and analysis of medical and death records, but an air of optimism that by working with united, true change will come for Milwaukee's babies.