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Setting the Medicaid Growth Rate

Brandy Davis
October 21, 2024

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Maternal & Infant Health
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Medical bias, weathering and the deadly impact on Black mothers

Community Solutions Team
June 29, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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June 26 Friday Webinar: How COVID-19 has impacted child care

Community Solutions Team
June 26, 2020
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AIDS Funding Collaborative welcomes new Community-at-Large Advisory Committee Members

Julie Patterson
June 23, 2020
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Don’t forget to support Black elders at this critical time in American history

Community Solutions Team
June 22, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Building a just community by giving voices to people at the margins

Community Solutions Team
June 22, 2020
Behavioral Health
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The impact of policing on Black mental health

Community Solutions Team
June 22, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Congresswomen Marcia Fudge headlines HSAN on food insecurity

Community Solutions Team
June 20, 2020
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Cuyahoga County Council hears update on diversion center

Community Solutions Team
June 19, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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June 19 Friday Webinar: Food access during and after COVID-19 with special guest Rep. Marcia Fudge

Community Solutions Team
June 19, 2020
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Ohio’s Balancing Act: Knowing the Risks of Reopening and Taking Action

Community Solutions Team
June 18, 2020
Older Adults
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June 12 Friday Webinar: How COVID-19 has impacted older adults, adult protective services and community-based services

Community Solutions Team
June 12, 2020
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Cuyahoga County executive talks rent assistance, diversion center, racial inequity

Community Solutions Team
June 12, 2020
Older Adults
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Families weigh the risks of sending a loved one to a nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic

Community Solutions Team
June 12, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Budget cuts in Ohio, which HHS agencies are affected?

Tara Britton
June 8, 2020
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Addressing two epidemics: COVID-19 and racism

Community Solutions Team
June 6, 2020
Behavioral Health
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June 5 Friday Webinar: Developmental disabilities, multi-system youth and the pandemic

Community Solutions Team
June 5, 2020
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We must rededicate ourselves to dismantling systemic racism and white supremacy in our community

Community Solutions Team
June 5, 2020
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Primary elections results, general election uncertainties

Community Solutions Team
June 1, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County Executive promotes county loan buying program, updates about small business loans

Community Solutions Team
May 29, 2020
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“Transmission continues robustly in our community,” Cuyahoga County has 3,063 cases, 186 deaths

Community Solutions Team
May 29, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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May 29 Friday Webinar: COVID-19, housing and the homeless

Community Solutions Team
May 29, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Considerations about remote services in the COVID-19 pandemic

Community Solutions Team
May 26, 2020
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May 22 Friday Webinar: COVID-19 and Education

Community Solutions Team
May 22, 2020
Behavioral Health
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Growing our gratitude during Mental Health Awareness Month

Community Solutions Team
May 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio’s new Pandemic EBT program will provide groceries for 850,000 Ohio children

Rachel Cahill
May 19, 2020
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Policy changes during COVID-19 have mixed impact: Qualitative data collected via Community Solutions’ survey

Emily Campbell
May 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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County to provide wifi hotspots to 1,000, virtual job fair coming in June

Community Solutions Team
May 18, 2020
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Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services levy passes with flying colors

Community Solutions Team
May 18, 2020
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“It's not true just because someone said it on the internet,” 2,254 COVID-19 cases in Cuyahoga County

Community Solutions Team
May 15, 2020
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May 15 Friday Webinar: Racial Inequities and COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
May 15, 2020
Older Adults
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Staying connected, especially during this pandemic

Community Solutions Team
May 13, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Grocery shopping alternatives are great, unless you have SNAP

Community Solutions Team
May 11, 2020
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How will we count America? Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are more questions than answers.

Community Solutions Team
May 11, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County announces more small business grant money, more money for testing

Community Solutions Team
May 8, 2020
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“Flattening the curve is not the end of the pandemic.” 1,997 COVID-19 cases, 105 deaths in Cuyahoga County

Community Solutions Team
May 8, 2020
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May 8 Friday Webinar: COVID19 Survey Results

Community Solutions Team
May 8, 2020
Behavioral Health
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Ohioans encouraged to use mental health resources at Governor's press conference

Community Solutions Team
May 6, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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The ever-expanding role of the American educator

Community Solutions Team
May 5, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Friday webinar series recap: How counties & case workers are responding to COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
May 5, 2020
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Governor releases new guidelines for COVID-19 testing priorities

Community Solutions Team
May 5, 2020
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Cuyahoga County Executive announces employee furloughs, hiring freeze and expected budget cuts

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
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Service provision has been disrupted, but agencies are adapting: Results of Community Solutions’ COVID-19 survey

Emily Campbell
May 1, 2020
Maternal & Infant Health
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Giving birth while social distancing changes everything

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
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Racial health inequities are “preventable, they're avoidable, they're unjust:” 1,678 COVID-19 cases in Cuyahoga County, 86 deaths

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
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May 1 Friday Webinar: Counties and Caseworkers Respond to COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
Medicaid
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Medicaid and COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 30, 2020
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The Math of Reopening: Looking into Ohio’s COVID-19 Testing and Mortality Numbers

Community Solutions Team
April 30, 2020
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76 people have died in Cuyahoga County due to COVID-19 - more than double the number who died from flu last year; County has seen 1,563 cases of COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 28, 2020
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Columbus Metropolitan Club Special Report: Coronavirus exposes disparities

Community Solutions Team
April 27, 2020
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What to watch for: The effect of the pandemic on Cuyahoga County’s finances

Community Solutions Team
April 27, 2020
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“We understand when we call that people are scared…we want to help track [COVID-19] down and understand who may be at risk.” 1,094 cases in Cuyahoga County, 67 deaths due to COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 26, 2020
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Cuyahoga County, partners to donate $200,000 to domestic violence center, Budish also announces new program that matches donors and needy families

Community Solutions Team
April 26, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Congregate living in the time of COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Older Adults
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COVID-19 and long-term care facilities, be kind

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Medicaid
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April 24 Friday Webinar: Medicaid and COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
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“We certainly can't flip a switch that will that will certainly lead to more infections and more deaths,” 1,028 cases in Cuyahoga County, 56 deaths

Community Solutions Team
April 21, 2020
Older Adults
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April 21 Webinar: Social Isolation and Seniors in the Pandemic

Community Solutions Team
April 21, 2020
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“We're going to be living with COVID-19 for some time” health commissioner says: 927 cases in Cuyahoga County, 42 deaths

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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April 17 Friday Webinar: COVID and Food Access

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Letter to Ohio's General Assembly

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
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County flags to fly at half-staff in honor of COVID-19 victims, grants and loans announced for small businesses

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
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“Don’t get too comfortable with the fact that we are making progress,” 845 cases in Cuyahoga County, 25 deaths

Community Solutions Team
April 14, 2020
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Survey: How has COVID-19 affected you and the people you serve?

Community Solutions Team
April 12, 2020
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Cuyahoga County presents racial breakdown of COVID-19 cases, 746 cases in the county, 20 dead

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County, Board of Elections provides 300 hotspots to CMSD students, AT&T to give two months free internet

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Coronavirus and child welfare

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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COVID-19 & Emergency SNAP Allotments: What You Need to Know

Rachel Cahill
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Pandemic EBT: What it would provide for Ohio’s school children

Rachel Cahill
April 8, 2020
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647 cases, 20 deaths in Cuyahoga County, Cuyahoga County is doing a great job flattening the curve but now’s not the time to let up

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
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Cuyahoga County gets restraining order to close non-essential business that had stayed open

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
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Voting during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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SNAP during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 7, 2020
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“Masks are not a substitute for social distancing.” 574 sick in Cuyahoga County, 15 dead

Community Solutions Team
April 6, 2020
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April 3 Friday Webinar: Policy and Potential Changes

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
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Six Cuyahoga County inmates test positive for COVID-19, investigation into who inmates had close contact with underway

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
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513 cases in Cuyahoga County, 10 deaths. ‘We're not gonna get on the other side of this curve unless you stay home’

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
Medicaid
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COVID-19: How to Get and Give Help

Community Solutions Team
April 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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409 lab-confirmed cases in Cuyahoga County, death total doubles to 8 since Monday

Community Solutions Team
April 1, 2020
Medicaid
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Flatten the curve, raise the bar: The role of telehealth in the pandemic

Community Solutions Team
April 1, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Seeking Unemployment Insurance? Remember to apply for SNAP too.

Rachel Cahill
April 1, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County Executive discusses county’s COVID-19 response at City Club forum

Community Solutions Team
March 31, 2020
Older Adults
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Medicaid and COVID19: How to use Home & Community-Based Services waivers

Community Solutions Team
March 31, 2020
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A (short) history of the race question on the decennial census

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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"It’s important that no one is left behind," Cuyahoga County medical director explains county strategy as COVID19 cases rise

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
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If we aren’t all counted, Ohio will have its smallest Congressional delegation in 200 years

Emily Campbell
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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VIDEO: Census is important despite, and because of, pandemic

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio General Assembly unanimously passes emergency legislation (House Bill 197)

Tara Britton
March 27, 2020
Medicaid
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Benefit changes: Redeterminations, requirements affected by coronavirus

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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More than 200 cases of COVID19 in Cuyahoga County, "We need you to please listen...or we are going to have problems in our hospital capacity.”

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County to buy $1 million in PPE, start small business fund

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
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When we’re on the other side…

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Medicaid
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Policy recommendations to flatten the coronavirus curve

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
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Cuyahoga County Board of Health says this is crucial week for the county’s virus fight

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Medicaid
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Cuyahoga County Board of Health: Testing reserved for the most sick, 99 cases in the county

Community Solutions Team
March 24, 2020
Medicaid
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Medicaid and COVID19: Positives, and what we hope to see moving forward

Community Solutions Team
March 22, 2020
Older Adults
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Preventing social isolation when the senior center closes

Community Solutions Team
March 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Human Services Advocacy Network webinar attendees hear from Upchurch and Crossman

Community Solutions Team
March 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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The census in the season of Coronavirus

Community Solutions Team
March 19, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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How to help your local foodbank during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
March 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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How to get food assistance, unemployment benefits

Community Solutions Team
March 18, 2020
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