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News

Check this page regularly for the latest news about our Medicaid campaign.

News Releases

• Budget conferees recommend funding for high quality children's health care (June 20, 2005)
• Ohio Senate acts to protect Medicaid funding for children's hospitals (June 2, 2005)
• Impact of Medicaid cut and payment freeze is four times greater for Ohio's children's hospitals (May 16, 2005)
• Ohio's children counting on Senate "Superheroes" to rescue Medicaid funding that protect kids' health (May 11, 2005)
• Children's hospitals look to the Ohio Senate to make health care for kids a top priority in the state budget (April 12, 2005)
• Medicaid cuts in Governor's budget proposal are simply too deep for Ohio's children's hospitals (March 3, 2005)
• Meager savings in budget proposal not worth risking children's health (February 10, 2005)
• Ohio's lawmakers now better equipped to "diagnose and prescribe" a Medicaid budget that protects children's health care (January 26, 2005)
  

Our Medicaid Campaign in the News

• Senate President announced that the Senate will provide an additional $6 million a year to children's hospitals  - AP, May 20, 2005
• Ohio Pediatric Hospitals fight Medicaid Freeze - Akron Beacon Journal, May 18, 2005
• Children's May Lose Millions if Law Passes - Cincinnati Post, May 17, 2005
• Family FIghts Medicaid Cuts: Mother Says Budget Would Jeopardize Care - Columbus Dispatch, May 17, 2005
• Parents Protest Medicaid Cuts: Proposed Budget Would Affect Children's Hospitals - Dayton Daily News, May 17, 2005
• Medicaid Cuts Would Mean Millions in Losses at Cincinnati Children's - Cincinnati Business Courier - May 16, 2005
• Senate Budget Panel to Field Medicaid Requests: Children's Hospitals Seek $12 million more in state funds over biennium - Gongwer, May 16, 2005
• Medicaid Payments Target of Discussion, WHIO-TV, May 16, 2005
• "Children's hospitals could lose millions under Medicaid freeze," The Columbus Dispatch, Wednesday, January 19, 2005
  

Editorials and Opinion Columns

• Children's Hospitals Must Thrive -- Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 12, 2005
• Healthy Children – It's What Matters Most, an opinion-editorial column written by Andrew Carter, submitted to and published by several Ohio daily newspapers during January 2005
  

Testimony

• Testimony of the Ohio Children's Hospistal Association before the Senate Finance Committee on May 17, 2005
• Judy Saran's testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, May 17, 2005. Ms. Saran is the mother of a medically fragile child with spina bifida and hydrocephalus.
• Michael A. Sherburn's testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, May 17, 2005. Dr. Sherburn is Senior Clinical Director, Psychiatry Patient Services at Cincinnati Children's.
• Letter to Senate President Bill Harris
• Ohio Children's Hospital Association Testimony against proposed budget cuts before the Human Services Subcommittee of the House Finance and Appropriations Committee on March 4, 2005

Meetings and Special Events

Statewide Press Conferences, May 16, 2005 - Families Fight Medicaid Cuts