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Advocates urge Senate to restore maternal and infant health investments and preserve statewide doula coverage
Summary
Advocates from Groundwork Ohio, BI3 Fund and Policy Matters told the Senate panel that the House budget cuts to infant-vitality programs, Help Me Grow, and statewide doula coverage threaten progress on Ohio's infant-mortality improvements and asked for restoration of prior funding and continuous Medicaid coverage for young children.
Maternal- and infant-health advocates asked the Senate Medicaid Committee to preserve and restore investments they say are critical to reducing infant mortality and improving early-childhood outcomes, urging lawmakers to reverse House cuts to programs including Help Me Grow and to retain statewide doula coverage.
Caitlin Feldman of Groundwork Ohio told senators that the first three years of life are crucial to brain development and that Medicaid…
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