From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, here is your news for Thursday, August 24th, on Mix 104-1 and Talk 101-3 The Buzz. From the Clevelan
From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, here is your news for Thursday, August 24th, on Mix 104-1 and Talk 101-3 The Buzz.
From the Cleveland Daily Banner…
On the first anniversary of her death, Edith Gail Tatum’s headstone at a rural cemetery was reported vandalized over the past weekend.
Her daughter, Shasta Kotulski, said she is offering a $100 reward to anyone responsible for the identification and prosecution or conviction of the person or persons involved. Kotulski said the vandalism occurred either Saturday or Sunday.
Tatum was buried at the Sugar Creek Cemetery, which is located off Spring Place Road on Keith Valley Road.
Kotulski said she has filed a report with the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office about the vandalism. The family is distraught the incident occurred, especially on the anniversary of Tatum’s passing.
She said the vandalism occurred either on Saturday, Aug. 20, or Sunday, Aug. 21, before 5 p.m.
If anyone has any information on the vandalism, they are asked to contact the Bradley County Sheriff’sOffice, or call Kotulski at 423-715-6020.
From News Channel 9…
A federal prosecutor has accused the owners of a Cleveland, Tennessee doctor’s office of using Marines to defraud the military’s health insurance.
CHOICE MD in Cleveland is a walk-in clinic that also offers massage therapy and Botox treatments.
The US Attorney’s office says the owners of the clinic, Jimmy and Ashley Collins, paid doctors there to write drug prescriptions to Marines in San Diego, California for profit.
In the federal complaint document, attorneys say that between December 2014 and May 2015, CHOICE MD paid its doctors to write 3,759 prescriptions for TRICARE patients.
TRICARE is the military’s health insurance provider.
In that time.. the filing claims Jimmy and Ashley Collins received $45 million dollars in kickbacks from a Utah pharmacy to recruit Marines, and then write them prescriptions.
Attorneys also say that no one at CHOICE MD treated or examined the TRICARE patients before prescribing them the drugs medications.
The court documents say the Collins also paid the Marines to recruit their friends to get the prescriptions.
Now, the U-S Attorney in California is trying to seize four Tennessee properties.
The Attorney’s office says a home, farmland and a shopping center in Cleveland were bought using money made through those kickbacks.
The Cleveland Daily Banner reports…
Lee University celebrated the grand opening of the new and improved Deacon Jones Dining Hall with much fanfare — and pizza.
It wasn’t just any pizza though, as it came from the university’s very own “Papa Conn’s Pizza.”
Throngs of students gathered to celebrate the grand opening, and listened as Lee University President Dr. Paul Conn detailed the modernized and restaurant-like dining hall.
When the ribbon cutting ceremony was completed there was even an official “first slice” ceremony, during which Conn served the first slice of pizza to Student Leadership Council representative Mannah Berg.
With all of the updates and new buildings that have been added to the university, the time had come to update the Deacon Jones Dining Hall. In total, the renovation cost $4 million, which was split between the university and Sodexo food services and facilities management company. Ryzec Building Group was the general contractor and Xcelerated Concepts was responsible for the design.
Work on the dining hall was started during spring break and was completed in time for the start of the fall semester. The last update to the Jones Dining Hall was over 10 years ago. That refurbishment happened when the Olympics were on campus in 1996.
This has been your local and state news. You can get news anytime by visiting our website, mymix1041.com, powered by Pioneer Credit. From the Tennova Healthcare Cleveland News Desk, this is Jeremy Gault reporting.
