The Dubois County Health Department announced four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed bringing the total up to 22 positive cases in the county. We are working closely with Indiana State Department of Health and local officials to ensure that contacts of the patients are identified and monitored, said the health department. Anyone who…
Indiana Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver announced a partnership with OptumServe Health Services to expand COVID-19 testing in Indiana. Starting next week, Optum will open 20 testing sites in Indiana National Guard armories across the state, including Jasper. Each site will be open for at least 8 hours a day, Monday-Friday. According…
Tuesday, Governor Eric J. Holcomb announced OptumServe Health Services, powered by Logistics Health, Inc., will open sites across Indiana in the next seven days to begin large-scale testing of Hoosiers. “Launching this partnership with Optum further expands Indiana’s COVID-19 testing capacity,” said Gov. Holcomb. “These free tests will be available in locations across the state,…
Unsurprisingly, early voting in the Primary will look different for Dubois County residents in 2020. In-person early voting will occur for one week beginning Tuesday, May 26 and ending Monday, June 1. Election Day has been moved to Tuesday, June 2. Last Friday, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an executive…
Tuesday, OFS donated and delivered 10,000 level 1 masks to the staff at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center. Ryan Menke, vice president of sales and marketing at OFS, and Molly Prior, director of marketing at OFS, were met by Memorial Hospital caregivers holding signs that said, “Thank You OFS for Protecting Us!” “The generosity…
BeWellIndiana.org was curated from mental health experts across the state; will be useful to Hoosiers coping with issues during and post-pandemic The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration today launched a new website, BeWellIndiana.org, that will provide Hoosiers with free mental health resources that have been vetted by experts. The site is designed to address the increase…
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced that 963 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 15,961 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total….
The Dubois County Health Department announced another COVID-19 case bring the total up to 18. “We are working closely with Indiana State Department of Health and local officials to ensure that contacts of the patient are identified and monitored,” said the department in a press release. “Anyone who may have an exposure risk has been…
We now enter a fifth week with shelter-in-place orders. As the governor contemplates easing some restrictions, it would be useful to know whether or not these rules saved lives, and how much they altered our economy. Unfortunately, we must wait months, if not years, for a clear answer. Those pondering such weighty matters don’t have…
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced that 634 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 15,012 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total….
