Central Ohio forum highlights maternal-care gaps, racial disparities and growing community solutions Local clinicians and community leaders at a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum warned that Ohio’s maternal-care gaps and racial disparities persist, urged stronger postpartum mental-health follow-up, wider use of doulas and midwifery, and pointed to community programs and policy levers such as Medicaid reimbursement to expand access.

Ohio faces alarming maternal care gaps, with 13 counties completely lacking OB providers, prompting urgent calls for community-based solutions and policy reform.

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