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OhioHealth will close the labor and delivery unit at Grady Memorial Hospital in central Ohio’s Delaware County at the end of July. It’s the latest in a string of more than two dozen Ohio hospitals that have closed or consolidated maternity care since 2018.

A Franklin County Public Health program funded with $300,000 from county commissioners aims to support black women throughout their pregnancies and until their child is 3 to help reduce the disparity in the infant mortality rates.

Typically an ambulance arrives to find a person in mid-crisis and requiring immediate care. But a new approach — called community paramedicine — aims to prevent emergencies in the first place.

Tuesday marks the first-ever meeting of the Ohio Black Maternal Health Caucus.In Ohio, African American women are more likely to die in childbirth than…