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A Muncie health service company is setting up an in-house clinic at Southside Middle School in Muncie. As IPR’s Christine Hatfield reports, the company will also work with Muncie Community Schools to provide health education to students, parents, and staff.It’s Muncie Community Schools’ first in-house clinic. Meridian Health Services will be working in collaboration with the nursing services already provided at Southside. It will also be partnering with school staff to provide behavioral health services.

The Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 125th Annual Meeting at the Horizon Convention Center with a retrospective of the group’s relationship with the community.

Meridian Health Services’ President and CEO, Hank Milius, was one of several distinguished professionals invited from the healthcare and substance use treatment and prevention field to a roundtable discussion with State and Federal officials regarding mental health/addiction issues at the NeuroDiagnostic Institute (NDI) in Indianapolis on Friday, September 27, 2019.

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As former Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones tried to get his arms around how and why pain killers took hold of American communities in such devastating ways – a project that became his 2015 book, “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” – he said he was taken by how hard communities tried to hide what was going on rather than confronting it.

The Meridian Community Health Speaker Series will feature award-winning author Sam Quinones on Monday, Sept. 30, for a program aimed at bringing awareness and local solutions to efforts to combat the opiate crisis.

from NPR It used to take at least nine months for a patient to schedule an initial appointment with a psychiatrist at Meridian Health Services in Indiana. Now, it takes days, thanks to a program that allows doctors to connect over the Internet with patients, reaching those even in remotest corners of the state. That […]

On a typical day before Judge Kit Crane takes his seat on the bench, the courtroom is full of whispers as people nervously discuss their cases.

Last Saturday afternoon, May 11, Meridian Health Services held an event at the Winchester Field House to benefit their Project SAFE. SAFE being an acronym for Substance Awareness and Family Education. As its name suggests, the Project SAFE mission is to raise awareness of the dangers related to substance use and educate and encourage children to make positive choices.

Leah Wooten stood on stage at the Horizon Convention Center in front of nearly 1,000 people Saturday night, a video of her and her 6-month-old daughter Jolee playing behind her. As her child’s big, bright eyes shone onscreen, it reminded Wooten just how far she has come.

Philanthropic endeavors have leaders who believe in the cause and champion for it!   For a decade, Charlie Sursa and Fred Reese have been particularly instrumental in Meridian’s philanthropic efforts and are being recognized as recipients of Meridian’s 2019 Spirit of Meridian Award. Philanthropy means the love of humanity—it is the pulse of not-for-profit organizations such […]

Meridian Health Services has acquired the Madison County Community Health Center, and plans to expand its services in the county.