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Exploring the Gap in Urban and Rural Health Care For Children

While it’s long been clear that children in rural areas have reduced access to some kinds of health care services compared to their urban peers, understanding the specifics of the care gap has proven difficult, because population-level data on utilization is split among many insurers and providers.

Expanding a Transformational Accountable Care Organization

Dayton Children’s Hospital has invited Partners For Kids®, the United States’ oldest and largest pediatric accountable care organization, to begin operations in west central Ohio and enhance the health of 94,000 children living in the region.

Meet Partners For Kids

When policy makers and health care leaders talk about “value-based care,” the work exemplified by Partners For Kids is what they mean.

Careers Events Calendar

Learn about upcoming hiring events at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Supplemental Security Income

A federal program could provide much-needed money to the families of children with disabilities who live in poverty – but in Ohio alone, many thousands of eligible children aren’t enrolled. Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Partners For Kids are developing new strategies to link families with this Supplemental Security Income.

What Effects Do Vaccine Policies Have?

COVID-19 has put a new spotlight on the ways vaccines are developed and distributed. In this column for The Columbus Dispatch, Abbie Roth, managing editor for science communication at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, takes a step back and explores what happens when governments require vaccination.

Why Some Children Could Lose Medicaid Coverage After COVID-19

When the current federal public health emergency ends, individual Medicaid eligibility must be “redetermined” for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. Children’s health advocates want to make sure that every child who should be covered by Medicaid remains covered.

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Is Your Contact Information Up to Date So Ohio Medicaid Can Reach You?

Families who have health insurance through Medicaid have not had to re-enroll for a few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This means you might need to sign up for Medicaid again.

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Project ECHO

ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a collaborative medical education and care management model that empowers clinicians everywhere to provide better care to more people: right where they live.