Community News

River Bend Hospital is pleased to welcome Ayodeji Ogunleye, MD, as the Medical Director of our inpatient psychiatry team. 

Dr. Ogunleye completed his residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences. He has worked with Meridian Health in Muncie, Indiana, since 2018. He has over 15 years in the medical field with the last six years working in psychiatry. 

Dr. Ogunleye specializes in: 

• Mood Disorders 
• Personality Disorder 
• Schizophrenia 
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 
• Bipolar Disorder 
• Mental Illness 
• Clinical Depression 

Outside of medicine, his interests include playing soccer and traveling.

Michelle Kreinbrook was appointed director of community benefit and outreach of North Central Health Services in February 2020.

North Central Health Services (NCHS) has awarded over $3.8 million in Resilient Youth Initiative implementation grants to 19 school corporations in Indiana. The grants will support schools in seven counties launching evidenced-based youth resiliency programs, reaching an anticipated 33,000 K-12 students by the 2021-2022 school year...

Children will soon be filtering in and out of the new Montgomery County Youth Service Bureau offices and they’ll be welcomed with open arms. Renovations, which began late last year, were paid for with more than $800,000 from North Central Health Services...

North Central Health Services (NCHS) today announced the last of three grants totaling $4 million for local housing and homeless support agency LTHC Homeless Services to aid in eradicating homelessness from the local community through the construction of the new LTHC Homeless Services Engagement Center.

For Hoosiers, finding reliable access to mental health care is too often an uphill battle. More than 50 percent of Indiana counties are without a single practicing psychiatrist. Statewide, the number of psychiatrists is half the national average. Indiana University School of Medicine is bridging this divide in services by significantly increasing the number of psychiatrists it trains per year. The school is growing its programs by a third, with support from more than $4.7 million in grant funding from North Central Health Services...

The Boys & Girls Club of White County will be getting a 14-passenger, wheelchair-accessible van, thanks to a grant it recently received. The grant, worth $67,502, was awarded by North Central Health Services...

NCHS is announcing a new grant opportunity for school corporations serving Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Warren, and White counties in Indiana. NCHS has allocated $2 million to the Resilient Youth Initiative, to fund planning and implementation grants for proven programs that support social and emotional learning (SEL) and substance use prevention for youth...