Ohio needs to do more for Black mothers and their babies: Wendy Patton
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Public policy can affect Black maternal health in direct ways. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer)The Plain Dealer
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Guest columnist Wendy Patton is senior project director at Policy Matters Ohio.
We should live in a state where all new mothers can rest assured that they’ll hear their baby’s first word and see them take their first steps. But that’s not the case for too many Ohio mothers.
The infant mortality rate is an international measure of the quality of life of a people or a region: the higher the rate, the lower the quality of life.
What Ohio could have learned about the coronavirus – if the state had the data
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A stack of paperwork detailing positive COVID-19 test results sits in a box at the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department offices in June. From a lack of a more precise contact tracing to a better vaccine locator, the coronavirus pandemic has shown weaknesses in Ohio s public health data-gathering efforts. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Public health is a topic that has inspired little passion until the coronavirus pandemic hit Ohio and exposed cracks in the system.
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Dr. Oâdell Owens to retire from Interact for Health Interact for Health announced Monday that Dr. Oâdell Moreno Owens, President and CEO, will retire effective March 31, 2021. (Submitted photo) Interact for Health announced Monday that Dr. O’dell Moreno Owens, President and CEO, will retire effective March 31, 2021.
Owens has led Interact for Health since October 2016.
Woodrow Uible, Chairman of the Board said, “We will certainly miss Dr. Owens’ leadership, advocacy and tireless enthusiasm for his work.”
Jeanne-Marie Tapke, the Board’s Immediate Past Chair and current Governance Committee Chair, expanded on Uible’s comments, saying “from early on, Dr. Owens stressed that to have the most impact our work needed to be laser-focused.”