Category: News

From The Star Press MUNCIE, Ind. — 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. The clinic, scheduled to open in April, was announced Tuesday during a school board meeting.It will be staffed by a nurse […]

From Indiana Public Radio 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 […]

From The Star Press MUNCIE, Ind. — 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. The meeting culminated in Muncie Mission Ministries receiving a $10,000 grant through the 2019 Fisher Governance Award, the ninth such award given […]

MUNCIE, Ind. – 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. Joining Milius […]

From The Richmond Palladium-Item Incremental improvements leading to meaningful change. That’s how Sam Quinones, a longtime journalist and author of the book “Dreamland,” told an audience of about 80 people Tuesday at Ivy Tech Community College Richmond that an area’s addiction problems must be attacked. Meridian Health Services and Reid Health plan one of those […]

From The Lafayette Journal & Courier 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 […]

From The Journal & Courier 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. Quinones, a journalist, storyteller, former L.A. Times reporter and the author of “Dreamland: The True Tale of […]

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 […]

from The Courier Times 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. Friday morning was not a typical day, however. It was a day of joy and celebrations, not judgements and sentences. Participants in the Henry County […]

from The Winchester News Gazette 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 […]