The Healthy Communities Collaborative will host a Health Care Job Fair for Jacksonville-area residents on Thursday, April 20

Springfield Memorial Hospital is now accepting applications for student volunteers during the summer months. The service-learning experience will introduce student volunteers to a variety of health care settings, and they will be mentored by current volunteers

Free take-home screening tests for colon cancer will be distributed at three upcoming drive-thru events sponsored by the Regional Cancer Partnership, which includes Memorial Health, Springfield Clinic and SIU School of Medicine: • 4 – 6 p.m., Monday, March 20, Simmons Cancer Institute, 315 W. Carpenter St., Springfield • 5 – 7 p.m., Thursday, March 23, Springfield Clinic Circle Drive, 900 N. First St., Springfield • 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 30, Memorial Drive-Thru Lab, 320 E. Carpenter St., Springfield

Taylorville Memorial Hospital is providing free take-home screening tests for colon cancer to local residents during the month of March

The Jacksonville Youth Engagement Program recently received a check for $2,147, the proceeds from last fall’s Jacksonville Memorial Hospital 5K/10K Race

Colorectal cancer will be the topic of the next Community Education Series event at Decatur Memorial Hospital. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and draws attention to the third most common cancer among both men and women in the United States

Memorial Behavioral Health therapists are now on-site at all three Springfield District 186 high schools to provide mental health support through individual counseling, group sessions or even mediation between students

Lizabeth “Liz” Haas, a radiologic technician in Medical Imaging, is the Springfield Memorial Hospital Colleague of the Month for February

Jennifer “Jenny” Morse, an urgent care patient registration specialist at Memorial Care in Decatur, is the Memorial Health Ambulatory Division Colleague of the Month for February

Annette Paine, RN, in surgery with Taylorville Memorial Hospital, is the nonprofit hospital’s Colleague of the Month for February

Alison “Ally” Orris, a patient technician and clerk in the intensive care unit, is the Jacksonville Memorial Hospital Colleague of the Month for February

Carrie Lynch, RN, with the Emergency Department (ED), is the nonprofit hospital’s Colleague of the Month for February

Martine Scarber, a spoken language interpreter with Language Access Services, is the Memorial Health System Resources Colleague of the Month for February

Agime Aliu, a receptionist with entrance screening at Decatur Memorial Hospital, is the nonprofit hospital’s Colleague of the Month for February

After a series of short hospital stays, former President Jimmy Carter, 98, decided to receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. That announcement last month from The Carter Center sparked an outpouring of support for the 39th president, but it also sparked questions from the public about what hospice involves and the decision to receive hospice care

Free take-home screening tests for colon cancer will be distributed at an upcoming drive-thru event sponsored by the Regional Cancer Partnership, which includes Decatur Memorial Hospital

Lincoln Memorial Hospital is providing free take-home screening tests for colon cancer to local residents during the month of March

Memorial Health will open a new urgent care clinic on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 901 W. Morton Ave. in Jacksonville. The clinic, which is for walk-in patients only, will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily

The Springfield Urban League will bring its Wellness on Wheels mobile health clinic to the Jacksonville High School Bowl on Wednesday, March 1

– A $10,000 donation from the Bertrand Hopper Memorial Foundation to the Taylorville Memorial Foundation will support the Healthcare Careers Educational Grant program at the nonprofit hospital. This is the sixth $10,000 gift to the Foundation from this organization

The Taylorville Memorial Foundation has awarded Taylorville CUSD3 $100,000 toward the construction of a multipurpose facility that will house a Performing Arts Center and an Athletic Fieldhouse

Jacksonville Memorial Hospital (JMH) has earned a Bronze Business Award from The League of American Bicyclists for efforts to create a bike-friendly campus

Lincoln Memorial Hospital (LMH) has earned a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Business Award from The League of American Bicyclists for efforts to create a bike-friendly campus

Taylorville Memorial Hospital (TMH) has earned a Bronze Business Award from The League of American Bicyclists for its efforts to create a bike-friendly campus

The Lincoln Memorial Hospital Market will open for its eighth season on Saturday, May 20, on the Logan County Fairgrounds in Lincoln and run through Sept. 30