Child Health

There’s no competitive bidding process through the state for pregnancy resource centers, faith-based groups and other nonprofits to get public money if they go through an organization like the Oklahoma Life Foundation.

The report addresses 16 indicators across the categories of economic well-being, education, health and family and community.

The federal government is increasing funding for a program that offers families free, voluntary home visits by health professionals from pregnancy to kindergarten. The state hopes to use those dollars to fill maternal and infant health care gaps.

The program allows local organizations to provide home visits from nurses, social workers and other health workers to help families with prenatal care and postpartum support.

For just the third time this decade, more Oklahomans went without health coverage in the most recent year compared with the year before. The drop was…