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  • 2015 Plain Press Community Guide

    EMERGENCY NUMBERS Fire • Police • Medical………………………………………….911 Poison Control Center……………..…….1-800-222-1222 Mental Health Crisis Hotline …………   ………623-6888 www.adamhscc.org RTA Police………………………………………. 566-5163 Safe Schools Hotline………………………771-SAFE (7233) United Way First Call for Help …..436-2000 ……or…..211   ABUSE Adult Abuse Hotline (Cuyahoga Cty DSAS)…..420-6700 Child Abuse Hotline…………………………696-KIDS (5437) Cleveland Animal Protective League………….771-4616 Cleveland Rape Crisis Center Hotline……………619-6194                                        www.clevelandrapecrisis.org …

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  • NOBLE makes platform recommendations for next Ohio Budget

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, December 2014) The dust had barely settled after the November election in the State of Ohio when Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality (NOBLE) gathered to start organizing to have an impact on the next biennial State of Ohio Budget. At a Saturday, November 15th meeting NOBLE members gathered to…

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  • MetroHealth offers internships, mentoring to Lincoln-West students

    (Plain Press, November 2014) CMSD NEWS BUREAU The MetroHealth System will provide education, internships and mentoring to students from Lincoln-West High School in hopes of spurring the teenagers’ interest in health careers. Students will begin the two-year program as juniors. The first group of 28 spent a morning in early September at MetroHealth’s hospital campus…

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  • July 2014 Issue of the Plain Press

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  • MetroHealth receives recognition for financial communications with patients

    (Plain Press, July 2014)MetroHealth Medical Center, Cuyahoga County’s public hospital system headquartered on W. 25th Street in the Clark Fulton neighborhood, received recognition from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) as the first health care organization in the nation to adopt HFMA’s Patient Financial Communications Best Practices. The award, from the Healthcare Financial Management Association,…

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  • SCFBC Program Director Megan Meister heads to Neighborhood Family Practice

    (Plain Press, May 2014)  Stockyard Clark Fulton Brooklyn Centre (SCFBC) Program Director Megan Meister will be leaving the organization on May 2nd to take a community based position at Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization Executive Director Jeff Ramsey made the announcement in an April 24th email to friends of the Stockyard Clark Fulton Brooklyn Centre…

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  • MetroHealth opens Teen Health Clinic at Lincoln West High School

    On Thursday, March 20th in its third week of operation, the MetroHealth Teen Health Clinic served a steady stream of students coming in for health care services. Clinic staff said most of the students it has seen in the first few weeks of operation have come to receive physicals required to participate in school sports.…

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  • Update on MyCare Ohio

    (Plain Press, March 2014) MyCare Ohio, a new managed care program for Ohioans 18 years and older who receive both Medicaid and Medicare benefits was featured in the February issue of the Plain Press. Following publication of the February issue, the Plain Press learned that the project was pushed back one month. Instead of consumers…

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  • Ohio creates new program for dual eligible Medicaid and Medicare recipients

    (Plain Press, February 2014) The five counties in the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area will be among 29 demonstration counties in the State of Ohio that will participate MyCareOhio, a new managed care program for Ohioans 18 years and older who receive both Medicaid and Medicare benefits. Speaking at the January 11th meeting of Northern Ohioans…

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