MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — Dr. Monique Katsuki knows how powerful it can be to put a book in a kid’s hands.

She’s a mother of two – and an obstetrician who helps parents bring babies into a world that’s filled with disparities in health, access and wealth.

“A lot of things we can’t fix. And a lot of things are not an easy fix. And things are so complex,” said Katsuki, an OB hospitalist at the Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital.

“But this,” she said, pointing to a stack of free books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, “is a real, concrete thing that we can do for our families.”

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Last month, Ohio launched a new initiative, becoming the first state to let parents sign their newborns up for the Imagination Library right away, as part of their official birth-cert

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