Cincinnati, Ohio - The Queen City...Home to Graeter's Ice Cream, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, a very odd style of chili, and now me.
After a grueling 5 week tour of duty on inpatient hematology/oncology, I am taking a break and doing an Advocacy and Injury prevention rotation.
First Up... Car seats.
Injury is far and away the leading cause of death in children and adolescents, and of all causes of serious injury, motor vehicle collision is the most common.
A recent study out of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia looked into the cold hard economics of providing Medicaid patients (low income families) with a car seats and compared it to the very successful Vaccines for Children Program. Not only did they find a car seat program to be cost effective, but it was more cost effective than every vaccination covered by the Vaccines for Children program. Not to mention the fact that these savings were realized entirely because LESS CHILDREN WERE BEING INJURED IN CAR CRASHES. Medicaid currently does not provide/reimburse for car seats. The cost to do so would be $13 per child per year. Go figure.
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Cincinnati! Whoa.
How's the food? Any good restaurants?
Interesting about the car seats. More public transit options would help too I bet--get people out of their cars. Do you have a bus system there or light rail?
Actually yes... I live in Northside (http://www.northside.net/) which has tons of great restaurants.
As far as the public transportation goes, there is a bus system, no light rail, though a Portland style street car system has been in the works for several years now.
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