Information Sheet

Health & Safety

• More than one in five babies are born with inadequate prenatal care in more than one-third of the state’s counties. Franklin County tops the list with 38 percent of babies born without adequate prenatal care.

• Medicaid paid for more than half the births in 13 counties. Adams had the highest Medicaid birth rate followed by Garfield, Grant, Franklin, Yakima, Jefferson and Okanogan.

• In 2001, Child Protective Services judged almost 14,000 children to be victims of maltreatment.

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