Hospitals

The Hospital Ballot Committee and the Clergy Community Coalition delivered 2,800 additional petition signatures after the ballot initiative was voted down at the Dayton City Commission meeting July 23.

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

Ohio Department of Health reports flu-related hospitalizations are increasing. Flu vaccines are recommended for everyone six months and older.

In 2024, the Dayton Children's Hospital has so far seen 66 cases of unintentional ingestions of cannabis products compared to only 47 last year.

The donation from the Jursich family will allow the unit to further support pediatric burn, cleft lip and palate, and craniofacial care.

Dayton’s city commission rejected a petition by the Clergy Community Coalition. It proposed a new property tax toward the creation of a public hospital in West Dayton.

Some small towns in the Midwest are growing due to an influx of immigrants, which includes some who speak rare languages. Hospitals and community leaders have had to adapt to make COVID vaccines accessible to those communities.

Cleveland resident Maurice Edwards was told he may lose his leg. The circulation to his right leg was so bad that he was in pain, but he dealt with it. But one day in 2019, while riding the bus after work he couldn’t ignore the pain anymore. “I couldn’t really sit down,” Edwards said. “I kept moving around on the bus like I’m on dope or something, you know? Because it was painful.” He got back to his home in the Glenville neighborhood on Cleveland’s East Side and realized how bad the situation truly was.

But the Ohio Hospital Association says those services come with a steep cost.

The number of individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 remains high across the country — and the Midwest. With the delta variant dominating cases, patients now are younger, sicker and often require more intensive care, hospitals like Methodist in Des Moines are facing pressure.

Ohio’s hospitals report they are at or near capacity right now because of a surge in COVID patients, as medical professionals overwhelmingly continue to recommend COVID vaccines and masks.

A spokesman for the Ohio Hospital Association says contingency plans are being made.