2026 Excellence in Health Care: IU mobile lung cancer screening saving lives
The effort launched in 2023 after IU Health leaders identified lung cancer screening as a major gap in preventive care, particularly outside large urban centers.
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2026 Excellence in Health Care: Hess to step down from med school after 13 years of growth, patient impact
As only the second outsider in 100 years to be named dean of the IU School of Medicine, Hess got busy when he arrived in 2013, traveling to all corners of the state, learning about the culture and building relationships.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Providing compassionate mental-health assistance
Hancock County’s Mobile Response Team was founded in 2022 as a collaboration between Community Health Network, Hancock Health and local law enforcement.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Program preps schools for student cardiac arrest
Kean first encountered Project ADAM while training in Wisconsin, where the national program was founded.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Program helps kids learn to use their wheelchairs
What emerged was a four-session program offered on consecutive Saturdays each April to train kids on how to use wheelchairs in challenging real-world environments.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Nurse finds her calling in educating others
Bringing the simulator to Franciscan is another in a long line of achievements Harrell has racked up during more than 20 years in the medical field.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Hancock Health is ‘exactly the right place’ for leader
The Greenfield-based organization with one hospital will mark its 75th anniversary in September. Long has been president and CEO nearly 12 years.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Doctor gives children with neurofibromatosis new treatment options
Dr. D. Wade Clapp bridges lab innovation and clinical practice in his twin roles as chair of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief at Riley Hospital for Children.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Community offers melanoma patients new hope
Community Health Network began treating patients with a new treatment, called TIL therapy, last September and remains the only certified center in Indiana to offer the treatment.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Psychologist helps student athletes at Arsenal Tech
Elaine Gilbert leads the eight-week Mental Resiliency Training Program, which teaches skills such as coping and emotional regulation to help athletes manage stress, build resilience and enhance their focus.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: CICOA program aims to keep seniors out of hospital
CICOA’s community health care workers intervene to help keep such obstacles from derailing a patient’s recovery and forcing them back into a hospital.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Providing care for the whole person
Licensed behavioral health consultants—psychologists, social workers, etc.—at The Jane Pauley Community Health Center provide support for patients experiencing mental-health challenges that are affecting their physical health.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Eskenazi pharmacist helps patients manage opioid prescriptions
Michelle Brown is the health care system’s first pharmacy specialist with a concentration in pain and opioid stewardship.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Police chief and pup bring smiles to IU Health
Shannon Trump, chief of police for IU Health’s Department of Public Safety, helped bring K9 Elliott to the hospital system.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Physician assistant has provided care to burn victims for 30 years
Madeline Zieger, a physician assistant, has been working for IU Health Medical Group in the burn centers at both Riley Hospital for Children and Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital for more than 30 years.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Doctor is on cutting edge of brain, spine disorders
Dr. Andrew DeNardo’s goals are to “provide compassionate and cutting-edge care and bring innovative products to advance that care.”
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Doctor makes future bright for sick kids
Riley Children Health’s Dr. Riad Lutfi is credited with transforming the way the hospital cares for its most complex and vulnerable patients.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Doctor guides patients, families through death
Dr. Claire Willard is the medical director of Eskenazi Health Palliative Care. She sees patients with serious illness during hospitalizations, as well as follow-ups in outpatient settings.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Volunteer educates families on safe infant sleep
Terri Reed meets directly with parents in hospital rooms, shortly after the arrival of their child, to discuss safe sleep practices.
2026 Excellence in Health Care: Once reluctant, Mills led Community transformation
Mills came to Community in 1985 from Ernst & Young to serve as controller at Community Hospital North.