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VERSAILLES, Indiana – Students at South Ripley Community Schools can now benefit from innovative high-tech telehealth as part of the Indiana Rural School Clinic Network’s expansion. “This state-of-the-art digital diagnostic capacity provides a critical service to our South Ripley students and community,” said Rob Moorhead, Superintendent of the South Ripley Community School Corporation. “This proven and secure telehealth technology matches our students up with the excellent medical services at Margaret Mary Health, providing students and parents with a variety of important benefits.”
To celebrate this critical clinic opening, a ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled to take place Thursday, August 2 at 5 p.m. EDT at the school with state and local education and agency officials. The South Ripley Elementary School is located at 1568 S. Benham Road, Versailles, IN 47042.
The new South Ripley service uses state-of-the-art telemedicine equipment and software to allow medical professionals to directly provide healthcare services to students. This is achieved through digital diagnostic equipment and sensors transmitting through secure broadband connectivity from the school to a medical facility, Margaret Mary Health.
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana – Drawing on experts in multiple disciplines from national, state and local levels, the Indiana Rural Health Association (IRHA) and AgrIInstitute will jointly host four regional high-impact opioid crisis symposiums in rural Indiana areas during July and August.
“This ongoing crisis continues to savagely and relentlessly penetrate every aspect of society in Indiana, including rural areas” said Don Kelso, IRHA executive director. “Professionals have come together from many disciplines to address this opioid health emergency, and we want to ensure that all Hoosiers have access to critical information and resources at all levels.”
“The intense attention being given to the opioid addiction crisis has helped many of us become better informed and more knowledgeable,” said Beth Archer, AgrIInstitute executive director. Emphasizing that this crisis “knows no boundaries,” Archer continued: “An important step in resolving this crisis is becoming better informed citizens – that means becoming better informed about what each of us can do in our homes, in our communities, in our workplaces, in our churches, and elsewhere, so healthy living can again be possible for those whom we care about.”
The four symposiums are now scheduled for July 10 at the White County Fairgrounds near Reynolds, July 26 at the Heartland REMC facilities in Wabash; July 31 in Daviess County (Eastside Park in Washington); and August 2 at the C Bar C Expo Center in Putnam County (Cloverdale off I-70).
Key leaders and regional professionals involved in addressing the crisis will take part, including Jim McClelland, Indiana State Executive Director for Drug Prevention, Treatment and Enforcement (who also chairs the Indiana Commission to Combat Drug Abuse); Michael Dora, USDA State Director for Indiana; Boone County Sheriff Mike Neilson; Amnah Anwar, program director of the Indiana Rural Opioid Consortium (IROC); officials from the Dearborn County Jail Chemical Addiction Program (JCAP); and other professionals and social workers.
WASHINGTON, Indiana – Following on the recent opening of automotive plastics manufacturing firm M&C Tech (a Japanese venture), ISOFlex Packaging is expanding the region’s plastics and blown film capacity. ISOFlex, a full-service company providing flexible packaging solutions, will formally open its 3rd production line in its Washington facility on April 24, according to David McKinney, president. “We’re pleased to respond to new demand with this additional capacity,” said McKinney, who heads up the Florida-based division of Sigma Plastics Group. “This new line will expand our capacity an additional 700,000 to 800,000 pounds of blown film per month.”
The Indiana Rural School Clinic Network (IRSCN) expands rural telehealth program in north central Indiana
GAS CITY, Indiana – Elementary school students at the Northview Elementary School can now benefit from innovative high-tech telehealth as part of the Indiana Rural School Clinic Network’s expansion.
To celebrate this critical clinic opening, a ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled to take place Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. EDT at the school with state and local education and agency officials. The Northview Elementary School is located at 725 E N H Street in Gas City, Indiana.
WASHINGTON (March 20) – Governor Eric J. Holcomb joined Washington Mayor Joe Wellman, M&C Tech Indiana President Yasuhiro Ito, and other local economic development and community officials to formally note the opening of the first Japanese company in Washington and Daviess County. The company’s new 40,000 sq. ft. facility is located near the intersection of I-69 and U.S. 50/150.
“To take our state to the next level, we have to take Indiana to the world and bring the world to Indiana,” said Gov. Holcomb. “That’s exactly what’s happening here in Washington, and I am thrilled M&C Tech recognized everything our state and the Daviess County community has to offer—including a top-notch workforce and strategic infrastructure investment. We look forward to witnessing their continued success and the good jobs they will create.”
“We see today’s official opening as the dawn of a new relationship between the city of Washington, Daviess County and our new friends in Japan,” said Mayor Wellman. “We are pleased to have this new opportunity to build a mutually rewarding relationship.”
Representing a joint venture between Moriroku Chemicals and Chubu Kagaku of Japan, the company has invested $4.6 million in developing a manufacturing facility for the production of plastic automotive components, including extrusion molding and light assembly of sunroof and door parts. To date M&C Tech Indiana has hired 15 employees. It plans to eventually expand to 70 employees.
“We are pleased at the welcome we have received from the people of Indiana and Washington, and thank Gov. Holcomb and Mayor Wellman for their support,” said M&C Tech Indiana President Ito. “We look forward to growing our company in the years ahead.”
Mayor Wellman traveled to Japan in February 2016 to meet with executives of Japanese companies, which included a specific visit to Moriroku Chemicals’ Tokyo headquarters. There the Mayor invited executives to consider an expansion to the Washington area, citing the availability of I-69 as a supply chain and distribution advantage.
“The successful attraction and opening of M&C Tech Indiana in Washington represents strategic and collaborative work between many people in the region, especially including our elected officials like Mayor Wellman,” said Ron Arnold, executive director of the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation. “We look forward to M&C Tech Indiana being the first of major successes associated with our development of the Exit 62 area of I-69.”
About the City of Washington — Washington, the county seat of Daviess County, is a city of 12,000, located in southwestern Indiana along the new I-69 corridor midway between Indianapolis and Evansville. In addition to the new investment by M & C Tech at Exit 62 of I-69, private and public investment continues to expand. The City has streamlined its zoning processes, constructed a new 600,000-gallon water tower, improved its water and sewer infrastructure, and now provides electricity to several thousand acres around the interchange to enhance potential development. For more information, please visitwww.washingtonin.us
About the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation As a private/public partnership for county-wide economic development, the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) is working to build a foundation for a better tomorrow in the communities within Daviess County, Indiana. A founding organization of the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park, DCEDC’s mission is to develop a process which improves the standard of living for all citizens by creating, retaining and reinvesting wealth while protecting the environment. For more information, please visit www.dcedc.net.
CONTACT:
Abby Gras (IEDC) – 317.232.8845 or agras@iedc.in.gov
Jill Campbell (M&C Tech Indiana) – 812.674.2122 ext. 224 or jcampbell@mctechin.com
Michael Snyder (MEK Group) – cell 317-709-3560 or msnyder@themekgroup.com
WASHINGTON (Indiana) – Starting with a three-page opening gatefold in a special Indiana section appearing with the July 2017 Site Selection magazine, the Daviess County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) has started the execution of a strategic integrated outreach to decision makers. The integrated campaign will appear in both print and online.
“Since the late 1990s Daviess County has experienced some major growth in key sectors,” said Ron Arnold, DCEDC executive director. “When we learned that the Indiana Economic Development Corporation was planning a cooperative special section with Site Selection magazine, we felt it was time to tell our success story as a county.”
ODON, Indiana – Executives of the Virginia-based Alion Science and Technology company joined state and local officials at the WestGate at Crane Technology Park June 2 to mark progress of the all-new $4.3 million Alion facility in the park.
“Days like today are important not just locally but to the people of Indiana – technology growth, particularly like what Alion is demonstrating here today, is a critical focus of our administration as we take our economy to the Next Level.,” said Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch. She continued: “The future is bright. It is bright for NSWC Crane. It is bright for Hoosiers living here in the region. And it is bright for the state of Indiana.”
$750,000 three-year grant to create and fund Indiana Opioid Consortium with seven clinical and educational partners to address opioid epidemic at rural grassroots level
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana – A new Indiana Opioid Consortium is now gearing up to combat what its new director describes as a “a crisis that has exploded in Indiana and has severely impacted rural communities and residents.” Dr. Amnah Anwar, the program director of the new statewide consortium, said the crisis in the Hoosier state has reached “epidemic proportions.”
In addition to a renewed focus on prevention, the Consortium will focus on both incre
asing the availability of behavioral health services for individuals with Opioid-Use Disorder (OUD) in rural areas and helping ensure that professionals and community members associated with dedicated Opioid Treatment Facilities (physical and telehealth-based) have needed training and education tools.