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Ohio Guard Provides No-Cost Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2026 – Ohio National Guard medical personnel joined state and community partners to provide no-cost healthcare and support services to Athens County residents and other Ohioans during GuardCare, conducted Aug. 1-2, at Ohio University. The annual event was held at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic...
Yahoo!
Hope and concern swirl for Ohioans around ‘world’s largest datacenter’
On a winding road tucked away behind forests in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio is where OpenAI, Nvidia and Japanese investors are set to spend $500bn on one of the largest artificial intelligence datacenters on the planet. Last March, the energy secretary, Chris Wright, the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick...
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Waverly schools set 7th, 12th grade vaccine clinic
WAVERLY, Ohio — Waverly City Schools will host a vaccination clinic for seventh- and 12th-grade students on Sept. 2, giving families a chance to get state-required immunizations without leaving the district, according to a flyer the district posted to its Facebook page. The clinic, organized with the Pike County...
Chillicothe Gazette
New state-of-the-art medical center opens on CCI grounds
CHILLICOTHE— It took five years of construction and two wardens to be finished, but the new medical facility at Chillicothe Correctional Institution is finally open and serving the aging incarcerated population. Read More: ODRC donates radios to Ross and Pike Counties' first responders The 27,000-square-foot facility sits on what was once an empty field inside the institution's gates. Now, the state-of-the-art facility can provide day-to-day and comprehensive medical, dental and optometric care to incarcerated adults from around the State of Ohio. Caretakers will also benefit from this up-to-date facility with air conditioning, examination rooms, 18 inpatient beds and a walk-up medicine window. An updated medical dorm is located directly next door, making it easy for those needing care to get it quickly. Tim Shoop is now the Warden of the Ross Correctional Institution across the street, but he helped start this project when he was warden of CCI. He has waited years to see this facility up and running and is proud to finally see the doors open to patients. Current CCI Warden Gary Galloway called the facility an "inspiring milestone" and a "monumental occasion." Providing care to those in the institution helps to rehabilitate them and sets them up
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Mahoning Valley Medicaid providers among those indicted on fraud charges
Indictments filed last week by the office of Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson accuse six Medicaid providers of stealing a combined $558,383 from the government healthcare program for the needy. “Fraud against Medicaid is fraud against Ohio taxpayers,” Wilson said. “We will continue to investigate suspicious billing behavior and hold...
The Columbus Dispatch
Marietta residents fight fracking brine disposal, call it 'Russian roulette'
It's difficult to talk about Marietta without using the word "historic." The southeastern Ohio city of more than 13,000 residents sits at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, along the West Virginia border. It is home to the largest burial site of Revolutionary War soldiers in a single graveyard, ancient Indigenous archaeological sites dating to about 100 BC, is recognized as Ohio's first permanent American settlement in 1788, and the first organized seat of government for the Northwest Territory from which Ohio was formed. But the community is now dealing with a modern threat they fear could define the city's future. Since 2025, residents, activists and local organizers have sounded the alarm about the possibility that toxic, radioactive wastewater stored thousands of feet underground could migrate into the region's drinking water. They warn that contamination could trigger an environmental disaster. For years, trucks from neighboring Pennsylvania and West Virginia have crossed into Ohio to dump billions of gallons of radioactive wastewater known as brine – the chemical waste from fracking for oil and gas – thousands of feet underground through injection wells near Marietta's water supply. The brine is stored deep underground between porous rock formations that, in
The Logan Daily News
New physician joins Genesis Digestive Disease Specialists
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Genesis HealthCare System welcomes Bandhul Hans, M.D., gastroenterologist, to Genesis Digestive Disease Specialists. Dr. Hans completed his gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his internal medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and previously worked at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. Dr. Hans earned his medical degree from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune, India. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is an active member of the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Dr. Hans looks forward to providing high-quality, patient-centered gastroenterological care as part of the Genesis Medical Group team. Dr. Hans is accepting new patients by physician referral at the Genesis Digestive Disease Specialists office at 999 Garden Road, Zanesville. His office number is 740-454-8193. More information can be found at genesishcs.org by searching for Dr. Hans under Find Doctors.
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Genesis adds Dr. Bandhul Hans in Zanesville
Genesis HealthCare System welcomed Bandhul Hans, M.D., gastroenterologist, to Genesis Digestive Disease Specialists. Hans completed his gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his internal medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and previously worked at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India.