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The Springfield-Greene County Health Department program offers home visits by community health nurses after a family brings home a baby.

In 2024, the State of Missouri extended Medicaid coverage to doulas for up to 12 months postpartum. We hear about the work doulas do and how critical that postpartum period is in this episode of our series Sense of Community: Maternal Health in the Ozarks.

The Birth Place at Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar serves eight rural counties. Patients often come from an hour or more away. Hear how they work to make sure everyone in their community has a chance for care and support on the latest episode of our series Sense of Community: Maternal Health in the Ozarks.

Learn how the PQC and its partners across the state are pinpointing preventable issues in maternal health and working together to drive education and action in this episode of our series Sense of Community: Maternal Health in the Ozarks.

The state's Office of Minority Health works to make sure Black women get the care they need when they're expecting a baby.

Springfield mom Veronica Peterson shares her story of how one health care provider went above and beyond to make sure her wishes were fulfilled.

The Drury University Meador Center for Politics and Citizenship is dedicated to the academic inquiry of politics and citizenship in the modern world.

Garden manager and senior at Missouri State University Erin Nelson talks about the campus plot and how anyone can grow vegetables and flowers themselves.

Hear news of Lady Bears basketball moving on into the postseason this week, reporting on the State of Missouri's plans to replace the income tax and we hear a profile of hemp derived sodas being made in Missouri and the legal grey area they exist in.

Hear news of clean ups along Springfield roads ahead of the Route 66 Centennial and we have a breakdown of so-called Senate Bill 3 votes over property tax freezes - almost a hundred Missouri counties will consider freezes and caps on property taxes in elections this April.