Health care

Dozens of mental health professionals and social workers protested outside of the CareSource office building in response to the company’s recent decision to seek repayments from behavioral health providers going back up to two years.

After 25-year-old Christian Black of Zanesville, Ohio, died in custody at the Montgomery County Jail, the county has agreed to a $7 million settlement.

Kettering Health says a new comprehensive medical center will open in Washington Court House in 2026.

The full-scale mock mass casualty scenario will be conducted in the morning by the Dayton Metropolitan Medical Response System. It is expected to wrap up in the early afternoon.

The 46-bed behavioral health unit provides psychiatric treatment and therapy to adults in Dayton and surrounding communities seeking care for various mental health conditions and symptoms.

Dayton Children's Hospital will operate the neonatal intensive care unit at Kettering Health's main hospital, which leaders say should help reduce infant mortality rates.

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.