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Hosparus Health affiliate Care Guide Partners will be hosting a community open house at its new William B. and Janet B. Schmidt PACE Center, located at 109 Buffalo Creek Drive in Elizabethtown.

Care Guide Partners says the open house will be an opportunity to share more information on the mission of PACE and to offer tours of the facility.

When discussing the PACE Center at the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce’s January luncheon, Hosparus Health President and CEO David Cook said the PACE Center will be a valuable healthcare resource for the community.

“PACE is an acronym that stands for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, and it really is all-inclusive,” Cook said. “From covering all of their medical needs to transportation to the adult day, primary care, restorative therapies, socialization, and just fun, so we’re really excited to bring this additional level of support to folks in the community.”

The ultimate goal of PACE is to allow individuals to continue to maintain independence by offering access to primary medical care, adult day programming, therapy, behavioral health, specialty services, meals, nutritional counseling, social activities, and more.

“It’s just really a great solution for individuals who are facing serious illness that want to continue to live at home but are struggling to be able to do that and may not have the financial resources necessary to hire in-home support,” Cook said.

The facility will be named after William and Janet Schmidt following a donation from the Schmidt Family Foundation. Learn more about the March 27 open house and about the PACE Center by visiting Hosparus Health online.

Bourbon consumers should be advised of ongoing scam attempts targeting the area.

The Better Business Bureau serving Greater Kentucky and South Central Indiana says local consumers have reported websites that appear to be legitimate and claim to offer high-end beverages such as bourbon and wine at low prices, but the deal turns out to be too good to be true. 

Consumers have reported after making a purchase products were not received, consumers were sent fake tracking numbers, or the consumer isn’t given contact information to report a problem or request a refund. Scammers have also been targeting bourbon-related Facebook groups offering to sell hard-to-find bottles.

The BBB recommends consumers protect themselves from scams by taking precautions such as purchasing with a credit card rather than a debit card, making sure you are shopping on a legitimate seller’s website and checking the website’s security settings, and protecting your private information.

Anybody who finds a scam can report it using the BBB’s scam tracker available at www.bbb.org.

The Radcliff Police Department is investigating a Wednesday morning incident that resulted in a shooting death.

“This morning at about 4:24 a.m. the Radcliff Police Department responded to the apartment complex located on Knox Boulevard in regards to a disturbance,” said Captain Willie Wells with the RPD.

Upon officers arrival, they discovered that a subject had been shot. 

“We do have one person in custody for the shooting, and the victim that was shot is deceased,” said Wells.

Detectives processed the scene and collected evidence, while patrol officers searched for the suspect who fled the scene. At about 5:52 a.m. the suspect, identified as Nicholas Vandergrift, was located and placed under arrest without incident.

Vandergrift faces multiple charges including Murder, Tampering with Physical Evidence, and Assault. He was lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center.

The investigation is ongoing. Anybody with possible information on the incident should contact the Radcliff Police Department at 270-351-4477, or leave an anonymous tip at 270-351-TIPS.