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Franklin County HealthMap 2025 spotlights infant mortality, housing and ACEs as top priorities

5022067 · June 18, 2025
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Summary

Health leaders from Franklin County, Columbus Public Health and four hospital systems unveiled HealthMap 2025, a community health assessment that highlights infant mortality disparities, housing and adverse childhood experiences as leading priorities and calls for cross-sector action and sustained prevention funding.

Franklin County and regional health leaders on a Columbus Metro Club panel on June (date not specified) released HealthMap 2025, a countywide community health assessment that ranks infant mortality, housing insecurity, mental health, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), maternal and infant health, and injury-related deaths among the county's top priorities.

The report, produced collaboratively by Franklin County Public Health, Columbus Public Health and the four hospital systems that make up the Central Ohio Hospital Council, combines quantitative and qualitative data and is intended to guide public-health planning across Central Ohio for the next three years. "HealthMap 2025 is really a snapshot, but it gives us a good understanding of the health challenges and the health opportunities that we face here in Franklin County," said Joe Mazzola, Franklin County health commissioner.

Why it matters: HealthMap 2025 aims to align hospitals, public-health agencies and community organizations behind a set of shared priorities rather than having each hospital pursue separate assessments. "All four hospitals came together to do jointly the interviews in the community, the data gathering so that all four of us weren't going in and asking the…

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