Health care

Attorneys for the city of Dayton and for the Clergy Community Coalition reached a compromise related to a financial disclosure, which is part of the coalition's effort to get a levy for public hospital funding on the ballot.

The Community Clergy Coalition has to wait another two weeks before learning the fate of their Dayton effort to put a public hospital levy on the November ballot. Dayton City Commissioners delayed a vote.

On July 9, the Clergy Community Coalition will turn in certified signatures to get a public hospital initiative on the November ballot.

Farmers with unpredictable and self-employed jobs can have a tough time getting health insurance. Ohio is the latest state to change the law to let the Farm Bureau sell an alternative.

Practicing hand hygiene and avoiding crowds are other ways to avoid the flu this season.

The local nonprofit, Homefull, opened its grocery store on Gettysburg Avenue on Monday.

Global Medical Response, a Texas-based ambulance services firm, will shut down its Dayton-area locations this year, affecting over 70 employees.

Statewide, around 32,000 Ohio veterans have now been granted VA medical benefits as part of the PACT Act.

The hospital’s labor and delivery services will cease operations on February 29, with the last delivery taking place on or before February 21.

A local clergy group expressed its displeasure about how the former site of Good Samaritan Hospital in northwest Dayton is being developed at the city commission meeting this week.

The City of Dayton is investing thousands of dollars of American Rescue Plan funds to redevelop the plot of land where Good Samaritan Hospital once stood. The money will go toward the first building at the site–a new, full service YMCA with a pool and fitness center.

Women's Med Center runs some of the only clinics in the region that provide abortions. They are set to close their Dayton and Indianapolis locations next week because of laws that restrict abortions in both states. If Women’s Med does close in Ohio and Indiana, a few staff are planning to open a new clinic in one of the closest states where abortion is legal.