July 21, 2010
J.K. WallThe scramble by local hospitals to form their physicians and facilities into “clinically integrated” networks
that can do business with employers and health insurers has another huge motivating factor: Beginning January 2012, they can
also do business with Medicare, the massive federal program for seniors.
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July 17, 2010
J.K. WallClarian Health is launching its own health insurance plan, the boldest of several initiatives at Indianapolis hospitals to
bypass health insurers and provide health benefits directly to employers.
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July 10, 2010
J.K. WallUnemployment in Indiana has moderated slightly, but more than 313,000 Hoosiers remain out of work. And with attempts to extend
benefits for the jobless stalled in Congress, it’s likely more people will struggle to pay medical bills.
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June 16, 2010
Mason King
Dan Evans, president and CEO of Clarian Health, details his cure for losing sight of day-to-day operations, how
he gauges his effectiveness, and two bits of crucial advice.
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May 19, 2010
J.K. WallIf Clarian Health CEO Dan Evans were investing in health care real estate, he’d make bets in three new things: smaller,
denser clinics with lots of computer equipment to do telemedicine; medical office buildings populated by physician assistants;
and nursing homes with a strong relationship with a hospital.
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May 5, 2010
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based hospital system, which has 16 hospitals as far afield as LaPorte, Hartford City and Paoli, can
now associate with all its facilities the name of the school that trains the majority of doctors and nurses throughout the
state.
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May 5, 2010
J.K. WallClarian will become Indiana University Health early next year in a bet the IU brand carries more punch statewide and nationally.
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April 24, 2010
J.K. WallClarian is planning to spend $1.7 billion in the next five years on capital projects, half of that going to its downtown Indianapolis
campuses.
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April 23, 2010
Associated PressClarian Health officials on Thursday plan to buy four helicopters as it replaces aircraft in its aging patient-transport
fleet.
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April 17, 2010
J.K. WallClarian Health is planning to build a bed tower at Methodist Hospital in a massive project that shows renewed
commitment
to the downtown campus. The tower would have 175 to 250 beds and allow Methodist to make all its rooms private.
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April 7, 2010
To understand why hospitals are so eager to employ physicians—and prevent them from owning their own facilities—look
no further than the latest data on how much doctors are paid compared with how much revenue they generate for hospitals.
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March 22, 2010
J.K. WallSweeping changes phase in slowly for most, but insurers, hospitals, drug companies, employers, workers, medical device makers
and more will eventually feel impact.
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February 13, 2010
J.K. WallClarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want their planned neurosciences hub to become a destination
for patients suffering
from brain, nerve and mental maladies—and for the government and industry research dollars that can
fuel advances in care.
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February 2, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinClarian Health Partners is considering converting a long-vacant, 180,000-square-foot Levitz furniture store on East Washington
Street into a center for home-health and pharmacy services.
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January 23, 2010
J.K. WallSt. Vincent Health's agreement to lease the county hospital in Salem for five years is the latest in a string of deals
by Indianapolis hospital systems seeking a statewide presence.
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January 16, 2010
IBJ StaffIt’s the latest exhalation by a local hospital after massive
investment losses and a scary economy forced them to tighten their belts a year ago.
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January 16, 2010
Cory SchoutenThe local construction company is drawing up plans for a mixed-use project with offices, a parking garage and retail space
on several parcels it owns near Capitol Avenue and 16th Street.
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January 13, 2010
J.K. WallClarian Health soon will restart work on a new tower at Riley Hospital for Children near downtown Indianapolis and
is set to lift other cost-saving restrictions.
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December 30, 2009
J.K. WallIndianapolis health care heavyweights are among those spending $635 million, employing 166 former aides to key congressional
leaders and committees in health reform process.
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October 30, 2009
J.K. WallClarian Health has resumed construction on its Saxony Medical Center in Fishers after an 8-month hiatus, the Indianapolis-based
hospital system announced Friday.
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October 17, 2009
As health care legislation
continues to wend its way through Congress, Indianapolis-area industry leaders still harbor strong
opinions about the issue. Five industry insiders discussed how to improve the health care system during
IBJ’s Power Breakfast Sept. 25 at the Westin Indianapolis.
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October 13, 2009
J.K. WallPresenting five video excerpts from a free-wheeling panel discussion about health-care reform featuring five of the city's
top decision-makers. J.K. Wall moderates the IBJ's Power Breakfast, covering tort reform,illegal immigrants, pay models and
insurance companies.
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May 18, 2009
J.K. WallClarian Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine want to turn 1,500 or more doctors into employees under a new
nonprofit group called the Indiana Clinic.
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April 6, 2009
Indianapolis ad firm The Heavyweights and its local client Clarian Health have won one of the ad industry's biggest awards
for one component of Clarian's "A Call to Change" campaign.
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December 15, 2008
Chris O'MalleySt. Francis Hospital-Mooresville is seeing higher-than-projected use of a newly added emergency department that has firmed
up its status as a full-service hospital.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.