News Progress

•August 1, 2018• By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service Two years ago in this space I told the story of a Mississippi woman Katherine Green who got caught in the unsavory business practices of the air ambulance industry that has trapped many more Americans since then. Green, a college history professor, chose to fight the company that transported her late husband to a Jackson hospital after he suffered a fatal fall in their home. The ambulance company Rocky Mountain Holdings, a subsidiary of Air Methods, billed her $50,950. Her husband’s insurance company, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, … Read More

25 Years Ago This Week Illinois Army National Guardsmen assigned to the Sullivan Battalion headed out to battle the flood on the Mississippi River. Approximately 50 guardsmen assigned to Sullivan have been activated to go south while putting their lives on hold. Area communities are pitching in for flood relief. Volunteers from Bethany are collecting donations to be delivered to the Quincy area. Lovington residents are collecting paper products, hygiene items and non-perishable food while members of the Sullivan American Legion are collecting canned goods. The Moultrie-Douglas Fair was the scene of the 4-H food and clothing shows. Illinois State … Read More

•August 1, 2018• Senior Education Ministries, Inc. in partnership with the Sullivan community has scheduled Dine with a Doc ® -Sullivan on the First Tuesday of every month from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Max J. Knight Community Building Banquet Hall at Mason Point. Dine with a Doc® is a free educational program that welcomes the local senior public to getting to hear an educational topic while enjoying a complimentary lunch. This program is a community effort of a doctor, a lunch sponsor, the senior citizens, local churches and area businesses coming together for the good of all to serve … Read More

•August 1, 2018• Representing a quarter of the U.S. population, there are more than 83 million Millennials (those born between 1982 and 2000) in the U.S., surpassing the number of Baby Boomers alive today by nearly eight million people. They’ve grown up in a digital age and want different things when it comes to accessing health care. A PNC Healthcare study last year found that Millennials are twice as likely as Baby Boomers to prefer retail clinics and acute care facilities for speed and efficient healthcare delivery. More than a quarter of Millennials say that they do not have a … Read More