Rep. McNally Announces Appointment to Commission on Infant Mortality

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Lauren McNally (D-Youngstown) today announced her assignment to the Ohio Commission on Infant Mortality for the 136th General Assembly. The Ohio Commission on Infant Mortality (ORC 3701.68) was created in 2014 with the goal of improving Ohio's infant mortality rate. Commission members are pulled together from the state legislature, directors, and designees from various executive agencies, and representatives from Ohio’s healthcare sector and community-based programs. The commission is charged with advising the governor on how to best allocate state funding and services to addressing infant mortality, which is defined as the death of a live-born baby before his or her first birthday.

“Infant mortality is an issue I’ve been working on since my time on Youngstown City Council,” said Rep. McNally. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to be able to engage with this issue from a higher level. As a state, Ohio’s infant mortality rate is above the national average. We need to do better and we have the resources at the state level to be able to do better.”

For more information on the commission, here is a link to their website. https://cim.legislature.ohio.gov/.