BMC receives grant to help kids start kindergarten at healthy weight

(Boston University Medical Center) Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Vital Village Network has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at developing the infrastructure to support all children entering kindergarten at a healthy weight. The $500,000 strategic planning grant, entitled Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW), is led by BMC pediatrician Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, who will work with a national team of experts and stakeholders to promote healthy growt...