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Gov. Eric Holcomb is the recipient of Meridian Health Services’ 2020 Spirit of Meridian Award. The annual recognition is awarded to someone who has contributed significantly to the overall health and well-being of people.

Governor Eric Holcomb is the recipient of Meridian Health Services’ 2020 Spirit of Meridian Award, a recognition that pays tribute to an individual who demonstrates proactive actions in promoting healthier communities. The annual recognition is awarded to someone who has contributed significantly to the overall health and well-being of people and somebody who goes above and beyond the call of duty.

Kellie Pearson-Carroll has been named the new vice president of human resources at Meridian Health Services. Pearson-Carroll has more than 20 years of human resource operations and management in hospital and healthcare organizations, according to a release. At Meridian, she will oversee the development and implementation of human resource policies, recruitment, retention, legal compliance, benefit […]

Meridian Health Services and Muncie Community Schools are partnering to open a health center at Southside Middle School, the first of its kind in the Muncie region.

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.