{"id":169,"date":"2017-04-19T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/?p=169"},"modified":"2018-02-02T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T16:02:18","slug":"meridian-surpasses-150000-rialzo-viii-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/blog\/2017\/04\/meridian-surpasses-150000-rialzo-viii-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian surpasses $150,000 Rialzo VIII goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/rialzoviii-goalarticle-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/rialzoviii-goalarticle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/rialzoviii-goalarticle.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MUNCIE, Ind. \u2014 Thanks to the help of community members and partners, Meridian Health Services will be dedicating more than $150,000 toward the organization&#8217;s maternal treatment program for drug addicted pregnant mothers and their newborns, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian&#8217;s goal going into its annual charity gala, Rialzo VIII on April 8 at the Horizon Convention Center, was $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>That goal has since been surpassed with donations still coming in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rialzo 8 was our best yet, mostly because of the integration of theme (&#8220;There&#8217;s No Place Like Home&#8221;) and cause, which led to the unprecedented response,&#8221; Scott Smalstig, vice president of development at MHS, said. &#8220;We were not only up in every revenue category, but donations are still coming in!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is still a chance for people to donate to the program with a gift or pledge.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release, 1 in 10 babies born at local hospitals are withdrawing from drugs. Meridian&#8217;s new program will help mothers create a &#8220;No Place Like Home&#8221; atmosphere and a better chance at life for their newborns once they return from the NICU. Smalstig said the program starts June 1. Donations can be made at merdianhs.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNCIE, Ind. \u2014 Thanks to the help of community members and partners, Meridian Health Services will be dedicating more than $150,000 toward the organization&#8217;s maternal treatment program for drug addicted pregnant mothers and their newborns, according to a release. Meridian&#8217;s goal going into its annual charity gala, Rialzo VIII on April 8 at the Horizon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}