IU Health operating earnings climb on strong patient volumes
The state’s largest health care system saw gains in admissions, inpatient days and surgeries, but visits to the ER and radiology exams dropped slightly.
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Hospital construction boom fans overbuilding fears
Even before news broke that an unidentified health care system had lined up 30 acres at 96th Street and Spring Mill Road for a massive development, projects costing billions of dollars were underway or on the drawing board across the region.
St. Vincent says it remains ‘fully committed’ to West 86th Street campus
At the same time, the Indianapolis-based health system continues to sidestep questions about whether it is involved in a proposal to build a $1 billion hospital complex on a site just three miles from its 86th Street campus.
Franciscan nixes Carmel care center but prepares to open another in downtown Indy
Hospital systems have been opening urgent-care centers at a fast clip, using the small storefront locations to expand revenue, reduce demand on their emergency rooms, and get patients into their networks.
Hospital complex costing $1B planned for 96th and Spring Mill
Neighbors contacted about selling their homes to make way for the development say St. Vincent Health is behind it. But a St. Vincent spokeswoman said the organization does not have “details to share” at this time.
Riverview Health to open 4 combination ER, urgent-care centers
The fast-growing health system, owned by Hamilton County, plans to begin construction this year and open the centers in Carmel, Fishers and Indianapolis in 2019.
Hospital groups creating company to make cheap generic drugs
Several major not-for-profit hospital groups, including the parent of St. Vincent Health in Indianapolis, are trying their own solution to drug shortages and high prices.
Health network pays about $55,000 ransom to hackers
Hancock Health in Greenfield says it has been able to recover the use of its computers and that no patient information was adversely affected.
Riley moves ahead with $142M maternity expansion project
Riley Hospital for Children is about to begin renovating four floors of its hospital into a new, centralized maternity and newborn health unit.
St. Vincent parent considering huge hospital merger
Ascension Health and Providence St. Joseph Health are in deal talks to form the nation's largest hospital operator.
$50M hospital fuels Hendricks health care war
Hendricks Regional Health’s new Brownsburg hospital is only the latest in Indiana’s second-fastest-growing county, where almost non-stop development is pushing demand for health care.
IU Health, Monroe Hospital settle ambulance lawsuit
The settlement ends a two-year quarrel over whether IU Health violated antitrust laws when its ambulances transported most of the county’s 911-response patients to its own hospital.
Vacant Hobart hospital acquired by Franciscan
The single-story, 35,000-square-foot building is on 17 acres on the southwest corner of 61st Street and Lake Park Avenue, south of the St. Mary Medical Center.
IU Health loses, recovers patient info in Muncie
The Indianapolis-based health system said Nov. 3 that it recovered the bag of paperwork within hours and began an internal investigation.
IU Health pushes further into Fort Wayne, a market in upheaval
The Indianapolis-based health system said it will open a primary-care medical office in Fort Wayne early next year, and is examining “a long-term presence” in the market.
Tiny hospitals project hefty profits, but not all are sold on rosy outlook
St. Vincent’s new “neighborhood hospitals” are so small you fit three on a football field. But there’s nothing small about the profits the hospitals might rack up.
Food insecurity, hunger vex large swath of Indianapolis residents
Nearly 175,000 food-insecure people live in the city. About 47,000 of them are children, whose ability to learn and thrive can be hampered, according to panelists at a local hunger summit on Friday.
IU Health faces Bloomington antitrust suit over ambulance service
In a federal lawsuit that could have ramifications for many Indiana counties, Monroe Hospital claims IU Health is taking unfair advantage of the Monroe County market.
IU Health gets new imaging machine
The machine, manufactured by Germany-based Siemens, will be used at IU Health’s Neuroscience Center at 16th Street and Capitol Avenue, primarily for oncology and neuroscience patients.
Device maker SonarMed ponders whether to go solo or find a partner
The Carmel-based company makes a device that uses sound waves to help position and monitor breathing tubes for newborns in hospitals.