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Bridget's Path warns loss of $1M infant-vitality line would force closure of residential neonatal withdrawal program
Summary
Bridget's Path told the Senate Finance Committee that eliminating a $1 million infant-vitality line in HB 96 would make the Dayton residential infant care center unsustainable and would drive newborns experiencing withdrawal into hospital NICUs and into foster care at higher rates.
Jill Kingston, founder and president of Bridget's Path, told the Senate Finance Committee she was asking the legislature to restore a $1,000,000 infant-vitality line item that the Senate's substitute to HB 96 eliminated.
"Without the funding, Bridget's Path quite literally cannot stay open," Kingston said, describing the center’s model of inpatient, home‑like care and wraparound family services for newborns experiencing withdrawal. She said Bridget's Path has…
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