First Year Cleveland

The overall infant mortality rate dropped to 7.57 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2020 according to stats released by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the opioid epidemic, Cuyahoga County announced plans to use millions from its 2019 opioid settlement with Johnson & Johnson to support women and infants dealing with substance use disorders.

If the county's infant mortality rate stays the same, it would be the lowest in the past three decades, says the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

Families in Northeast Ohio who have experienced miscarriage or the death of an infant under the age of one can remember their babies during a Wave of Light ceremony.

A mom who understands the pain of losing an infant shares her grief to help families in Cuyahoga County, where black babies are nearly four times less…

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There’s been a troubling rise in infant deaths due to extreme prematurity, according to new numbers from the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. In the first quarter of 2019, the infant mortality rate in Cuyahoga County increased to 10 deaths per 1000 live births. This compares to last year’s rate of about 8.5. The gain was driven largely by preterm births. Most of the babies were black.

The agency that helps finance low- and moderate-income housing in Ohio is giving developers incentives to reduce infant mortality.The Ohio Housing Finance…

Northeast Ohio has some of the best medical care available in the U.S., but parts of Cleveland also have some of the nation’s highest rates of infant…

A program based in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County is getting close to $3 million to reduce the region's high infant mortality rate.Ohio's Department of…