WYSO's latest reporting on health and health care access. This includes coverage on CareSource, Premier Health, Kettering Health, Dayton Children's Hospital and other local health organizations. This also includes topics from maternal health, infant mortality, and more.
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The Dayton city commissioners approved a resolution to advocate for the protection of food access and healthcare and urge Ohio’s representatives on Capitol Hill to do the same. The Black Women’s Health Initiative in Dayton worked with the city to draft the resolution. -
The Family Connects Ohio home visiting program provides in-home nurse visits for new parents no matter their insurance status, income level or where the baby was born. -
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.
