Leaders of the IU Health hospital system have discussed recently, according to multiple sources, whether a closer partnership with Eskenazi Hospital might be just what the doctor ordered.
All signs point to University Hospital being shuttered as Indiana University Health goes from three downtown hospitals to two. IU Health leaders decided at least three years ago to close University Hospital on the IUPUI campus and move its operations to Methodist Hospital, according to an internal document obtained by IBJ. The document didn’t set […]
Gov. Mike Pence’s proposed budget includes about $19 million of the $50 million requested for a planned Indiana University medical school campus in downtown Evansville, according to the Associated Press. While the General Assembly could change that funding amount, Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke said Pence's proposal is a great starting point. Winnecke told the Evansville […]
Dr. Millicent Moye, a family physician, has joined Eskenazi Health. She received her bachelor's degree in German from Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. She earned her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Chaitanya Chekkilla, a family physician, has joined Community Physician Network in Indianapolis. She previously worked as part of the […]
When patients get to edit their medical records, they tend to leave out important stuff. That was the conclusion of researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health, after they conducted the first experiment ever in which real patients were allowed to control what parts of their medical records […]
Five Indianapolis-area hospitals stand to lose more than $7 million in Medicare payments as a penalty for having rates of infections and patient injuries that run higher than most hospitals nationwide.
Dr. Emily Frank, an internist and bone specialist, has joined St. Vincent Medical Group in Carmel. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington and received a medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Dr. Amikar Sehdev, a medical oncologist who focuses on cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, has joined […]
In health care, 5 percent of patients account for 50 percent of costs. Trouble is, those patients aren’t the same from year to year. Not even close.
John Kerstiens, the center's chief operating officer and chief financial officer, said the staff's mood on the final day of the center's operation was fraught with emotion.
Oops. When Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. sent emails to remind its customers to get preventative screenings, it mistakenly included information in the subject line about whether they had received various screenings in recent years. One of the emails from a customer in California was sent to Reuters. That subject line read: " – Don't miss out […]
Retail clinics and urgent care centers are proliferating. That could expand the market for health care. But if consumers decide instead to make strip malls the front door to their health care—rather than traditional physician offices—the hospital systems could see their market shares waning.
In the decade after the founding of the BioCrossroads initiative, money spent on life sciences research and companies more than doubled, according to a report released Thursday by the Indianapolis-based life sciences business development group.
The new IU Network Science Institute will have more than 100 scholars from medicine, the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities studying the environment, the economy, technology and health.
Indianapolis has a higher percentage of women sports fans than many of the nation's largest and most sports rabid cities. There's an especially strong following for the NFL, NBA, NASCAR and college hoops.
The Ruth Lilly Health Education Center has hosted countless school field trips and more than 2 million visitors since it opened in 1989. But it has struggled financially in recent years.
Early third-quarter numbers suggest that Obamacare, combined with the lingering effects of the Great Recession, is giving an unusual lift to both hospitals and insurers.
The Indiana University School of Medicine has hired Dr. Richard Zellars as professor and chairman of radiation oncology. Zellars, a breast cancer researcher, will come to IU in January from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He previously was on the faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Zellars earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Amanda Houchens, a family physician, has joined Franciscan Physician Network’s Carmel Family Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and her undergraduate degrees in biology and Spanish at IU.
Dr. Jerome Cordova, an internist, has joined Franciscan Physician Network’s Indiana Heart Physicians as a hospitalist, where he will treat patients staying as inpatients in one of Franciscan’s Indianapolis-area hospitals. Cordova earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a medical degree at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque.
Dr. Ryan Jaggers joined Methodist Sports Medicine in Avon. Jaggers earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Indiana University.
Major Health Partners will construct an $89 million hospital on the north edge of Shelbyville, after nearly a decade of shifting services to that location. According to the Shelbyville News, Major’s board voted Sept. 22 to build a 300,000-square-foot facility in the Intelliplex technology park along Interstate 74 and move from downtown Shelbyville. Construction on the project could begin as early as next month and take about two years to complete. Major first revealed detailed plans for the hospital six weeks ago, but the project could not go forward until the board’s 6-0 vote. The hospital will include 56 beds, all in private rooms, and 38 outpatient observation beds. Major’s current hospital has 72 beds in mostly semi-private rooms. When completed, the new complex will also have four operating rooms and house 57 physicians and a staff of about 930.
Researchers at Purdue University and the Indiana University School of Medicine have received a $3.7 million grant to study how blueberries reduce bone loss in postmenopausal women. The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine will pay for researchers to conduct human trials aimed at finding the most effective varieties and dosage levels of blueberriers for reducing bone loss. “This is one of the most compelling avenues to pursue in natural products research because blueberries would be a new alternative to osteoporosis drugs and their side effects,” said Connie Weaver, the head of Purdue’s department of nutrition science and one of the grant recipients.
Bernard Health, a health benefits brokerage firm based in Tennessee, opened its second retail store in Indianapolis last week. The 1,270-square-foot store is downtown on Pennsylvania Street, just north of Washington Street. Bernard, which now employs seven here in Indianapolis, opened its first local retail store in the Nora neighborhood in 2012 and now has 12 stores nationwide. For a fee, Bernard helps individuals and small businesses evaluate and purchase health benefits. It is one of several new models being tried out by benefits brokers in Indiana to adapt to new rules and opportunities under Obamacare.
The Indiana University School of Medicine received gifts totaling $1 million on the 40th anniversary of Dr. Larry Einhorn’s discovery of a drug combination therapy that nearly cured testicular cancer. In September 1974, Einhorn, a professor at the IU medical school, first tested the cancer drug cisplatin with two other cancer drugs—a combination that boosted survival rates from the cancer from about 20 percent to 95 percent. According to the medical school, 300,000 patients have survived testicular cancer after receiving the drug therapy Einhorn discovered. The most famous is Lance Armstrong, the cycling champion stripped of his victories after admitting to doping. The gifts will help launch a gene sequencing program among survivors so future patients can be given treatments that reduce side effects and complications. Half the donated money came from A. Farhad Moshiri of Monaco, who previously donated $2 million to IU. Another $300,000 will come from the children of local real estate magnate Sidney Eskenazi and his wife, Lois.
In the past two years, IU Health has laid off 935 people, halted construction of a major bed tower, sold off health clinics and decided to close its proton-therapy center. But there are three more years of changes to come, said CFO Ryan Kitchell.
Paying off medical debts over time is now a common experience for families with health insurance and becoming more so. And that is inducing big changes in the health care marketplace.
