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Tirrell Edwards was sentenced to life behind bars for the shooting death of his fiancée, Amanda Williams. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is reviewing gun rights for domestic abusers.
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Hundreds of people in Cleveland each year are gunshot survivors. Those crimes impact families for years to come after, from medical expenses to physical disabilities and mental health challenges.
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According to a University Hospitals trauma medicine expert, the holiday season is not only a time of joy, but also one of increased gun-related injuries and deaths, making safety and security measures all the more important.
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Recently released 911 calls following St. Vincent Charity Hospital's closure of its emergency room reveal that Cleveland EMS dispatchers and residents did not know the ER closed.
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In Northeast Ohio, many people suffering from injuries from gun violence end up at MetroHealth Medical Center's level 1 trauma ER. Hospital employees every day are tasked with saving lives and helping the community heal from gun injuries, but it doesn't come without a cost.
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Cleveland is nearing the end of a $2.7 million contract with the provider of the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter.
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'The solution may come from the average one of us.' Can grassroots funding create a safer Cleveland?Mayor Justin Bibb and his administration are working to address violence by creating an endowment using $10 million of the city’s half-billion dollar pot of federal stimulus funds.
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University Hospitals' Antifragility Initiative is a pediatric violence intervention program that helps youth recover from the trauma of gun violence.
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Public health officials and experts met Wednesday to discuss how to prevent gun violence and racism's effect on mental health at Akron's health equity summit.
Ideastream Public Media investigates how racism contributes to poor health outcomes in the Cleveland area and uncovers what local institutions are doing to tear down the structural barriers to good health.
A podcast that addresses livability metrics and recent findings surrounding the health and wellness challenges faced by Black women in Northeast Ohio.
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Only recently have researchers begun to understand the connection between trauma from viewing racial incidents in the media and poor health outcomes among Black Americans.
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Cleveland's St. Vincent Charity Medical Center on Wednesday announced it will discontinue inpatient and emergency room services in November.
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New research is shedding light on the true origins of the redlining maps that led to mortgage discrimination in predominately Black neighborhoods. Many people have mistakenly pointed to maps created by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in the 1940s. Researchers say, however, that other maps created by banks, insurance companies and the FHA were truly behind the racist banking policies known as redlining.
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A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge has pressed pause in a court case between University Hospitals and the city of Bedford sparked by the hospital system's decision to cut emergency and other services at UH Bedford.
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The Alzheimer's Association is raising awareness of the effects of structural racism on cognition levels, especially among Black people.
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The coalition tasked in the wake of George Floyd’s murder with alleviating the damaging effects of racism in Cleveland has hired a project manager and released a timeline of its work.
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On Monday, MetroHealth held a grand opening for its new affordable housing complex, Vía Sana, which they say is a way to address health disparities in Cleveland.
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Black people make up just 13% of Ohio’s population, but Black pregnant people make up nearly half of abortions performed in the state, an Ideastream analysis of figures from the U.S. Census and the Ohio Department of Health. That also means that limits on the procedure disproportionately affect Black Ohioans.
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Cuyahoga County's economy has changed. Nonprofit medical institutions now dominate in a county where manufacturing was once king. Now some are asking, "Who pays property taxes when your economy is dominated by tax-exempt nonprofits?"
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The debate over tax breaks for nonprofit Cleveland-area hospitals is also about racism and redliningIn Cleveland, the debate over whether the holdings of nonprofit hospitals should be exempt from property tax are informed by the racism and redlining.