Laura Newpoff
Dr. Patricia Gabbe, Healthcare Trailblazer, Columbus CEO Healthcare Achievement Awards 2021
After Gov. Ted Strickland was sworn in as Ohio governor in 2007, Dr. Patricia Gabbe was tapped to work with him and Mayor Andrew Ginther, then a Columbus city councilman, to address the region’s infant mortality crisis. A task force was assembled, a report was completed and then that report got filed away. “We can’t file that away. We’ve got to do something,” Gabbe thought.
The clinical professor of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University had an idea. She’d both help and learn from women in high-crime and high-poverty neighborhoods where infant mortality rates were five times higher than what they should be. Alongside Twinkle Schottke, an infant mental health specialist, Gabbe founded Moms2B in 2010 with a $48,000 grant from Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. It started out as a cooking program at a Black church in Weinland Park ne
A 30-year-old Navy veteran died after Antioch police allegedly used the ‘George Floyd hold’ on him while he was suffering a mental health incident, and the family is suing the Antioch PD.
Laura Newpoff
Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion, Nationwide Children s Hospital: Healthcare Trailblazer, Columbus CEO Healthcare Achievement Awards 2021
In 2013, Dr. David Axelson and his team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital received an invitation from the board to hear about whether the hospital was meeting the mental health needs of children. The board wanted the hospital to invest in this area to expand inpatient and outpatient services and build more research programming.
Axelson and the planning subcommittee got to work and came up with a proposal to substantially expand services. The board heard them out and encouraged them “to think bigger.”
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What If We Pay People to Stop Using Drugs?
Traditional treatments often take place in expensive facilities, demand total abstinence, and rely on punitive methods of control. A harm reduction model turns all of that on its head.
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Tyrone Clifford Jr. remembers the first time he tried methamphetamine. “It was everything, all at once,” he said; a whirring rush of euphoric energy. It was the 1990s, and Tyrone was in his early twenties. He was HIV-positive, watching as the AIDS epidemic tore through his community in San Francisco. People he loved were dying. He wanted that feeling of euphoria.
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