Pharmacy change for Community hospitals
The Community-based Wellspring Pharmacies at Community Hospital East, North and South will open as Walgreens pharmacies under Walgreens ownership, starting Dec. 19.
The agreement in principle will build upon an existing and successful three-year affiliation between Community and Walgreens Healthcare Clinics.
Chiropractor open in new location
Storm Chiropractic Clinic in Greenwood hosted a grand reopening celebration Friday.
The office is open at 622 N. Madison Ave., Suite 9, Greenwood.
Trafalgar native on national boating law board
Indiana Conservation Officer and Trafalgar native Lt. Kenton Turner has been elected to serve on the executive board of the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators.
Turner was elected to serve for the 2016-17 calendar year.
He graduated from Vincennes University with an associate of science degree in conservation law enforcement and began his career as a field officer with the DNR law enforcement division. He was named as the Indiana Boating Law Administrator in May 2013.
He recently graduated from the FBI National Academy.
The boating law administrators association is a national nonprofit organization that works to develop public policy for recreational safe boating safety.
Bariatric surgery center gets new accredidation
Dr. Steven Clark, metabolic and bariatric surgery director at Community Hospital South, recently announced the bariatric surgical center has been accredited as a Ccomprehensive center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program, a joint program of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
The program standards ensure that bariatric surgical patients receive a multidisciplinary treatment, not just a surgical procedure, which improves patient outcomes and long term success.
To earn the designation, Community South met essential criteria for staffing, training and facility infrastructure and protocols for care.
Resident named to veterans affairs board
Gov. Mike Pence recently made appointments to various boards and commissions.
Johnson County resident William K. Coley has been appointed to serve a term through July 1 on the Veterans Affairs Commission.
