Plain Press

  • Community Health Improvement Plan seeks health and wellness for all the people in Cuyahoga County

    (Plain Press, July 2015) The Health Improvement Partnership (HIP) – Cuyahoga released the first ever, countywide Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) on June 11th at the Ariel International Center on E. 40th Street in Cleveland. The plan, many years in the making, was spurred along in response to a 2009 analysis of life expectancy in…

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  • My MetroHealth, My Community Family Festival

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  • Hoops for Children’s Miracle Network

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  • Ohio House plan would undermine Medicaid expansion program

    (Plain Press, May 2015) The Ohio House of Representatives is planning to erect barriers to the state’s Medicaid expansion program that could jeopardize health coverage for hundreds of thousands of adults and children, a new report by Policy Matters Ohio says. “Ohio’s Medicaid expansion has been an unqualified success, with more than half a million Ohioans…

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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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  • Neighborhood Family Practice

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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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