{"id":3125,"date":"2020-02-12T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T18:47:15","slug":"2020-spirit-of-meridian-award-winner-governor-eric-holcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/blog\/2020\/02\/2020-spirit-of-meridian-award-winner-governor-eric-holcomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian Awards Governor Eric Holcomb with Spirit of Meridian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Star Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Gov. Eric Holcomb is the recipient of Meridian Health Services\u2019 2020 Spirit of Meridian Award. The annual recognition is awarded to someone who has contributed significantly to the overall health and well-being of people.<\/p>\n

Holcomb has identified healthcare as a major initiative in his legislative agenda and specifically focused on attacking the opioid crisis as one of his five pillars of accountability, according to a release from Meridian. On his first day in office in 2017, Holcomb appointed the state\u2019s first drug czar, tackling addiction and the state\u2019s anti-drug efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn large part, the governor\u2019s priorities mirror the ongoing work at Meridian. His support of these initiatives and demonstrating clear achievements made him our first choice for this annual award,\u201d Hank Milius, Meridian\u2019s president and chief executive officer, said in the release.<\/p>\n

“Holcomb reinforces his healthcare initiatives in the 2020 Next Level Agenda, which includes adding more recovery housing for Hoosiers coping with substance use disorder, more mental healthcare services, tools to assess substance use disorder in pregnancy and prioritizes reducing neonatal abstinence syndrome,” the release stated.<\/p>\n

“The governor\u2019s agenda also includes expanding recovery housing for people fighting opioid use. In addition, Holcomb\u2019s efforts to influence Indiana\u2019s infant mortality rate are showing signs of great improvement. Indiana\u2019s infant mortality rate fell at the highest rate in six years.”<\/p>\n

The 2019 Spirit of Meridian Award winners were Charlie Sursa and Fred Reese, recognized for a decade of work on Meridian\u2019s philanthropic efforts.<\/p>\n

This year’s award will be presented to Holcomb at Rialzo, Meridian\u2019s annual charity gala, which will be April 18 at the Horizon Convention Center. Tickets\/information: rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022<\/p>\n

Past Spirit of Meridian Winners<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Eric Holcomb is the recipient of Meridian Health Services\u2019 2020 Spirit of Meridian Award, a recognition that pays tribute to an individual who demonstrates proactive actions in promoting healthier communities. \u201cWe could think of no one who has had more impact in a just a short period of time on the overall health and health education of our state,\u201d said Hank Milius, Meridian\u2019s president and chief executive officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3199,"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-3125","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\/3125","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rialzo.meridianhs.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}