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Health care providers opening to technologyRestricted Content

May 14, 2011
Katie Maurer
Some health care system are finally allowing online scheduling.
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Q&A: Tony Lennen

March 9, 2011
J.K. Wall
Tony Lennen became president of Community Hospital South in 2009, overseeing a 50-bed expansion that was completed last summer, giving the hospital 150 private rooms. The facility, located along the line between Marion and Johnson counties, competes against nearby facilities run by Franciscan St. Francis Health, Indiana University Health and Johnson Memorial Hospital.
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Community wins sweepstakes for Johnson partnership

March 2, 2011
J.K. Wall
Community Health Network won a three-way race for a close partnership with Johnson Memorial Hospital, besting Franciscan St. Francis and Indiana University Health.
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Community Health plans $12M east-side medical complex

January 17, 2011
Construction is set to begin soon on Community Health Pavilion, a three-story, 55,000-square-foot medical building to be built on six acres at 7910 E. Washington St.
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New doc lifts Community breast biz

January 5, 2011
J.K. Wall
Community Health Network wooed Dr. Robert J. Goulet Jr. to join its breast-surgery team from the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center. The move fits nicely with Community’s focus on breast-care services and the economics of health care.
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Community, Westview hospitals in 'strategic alliance' talks

November 18, 2010
J.K. Wall
The form an alliance would take is not clear, but Westview looked for additional resources from city's four major hospital systems.
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Health reform forces providers, insurers to lay aside rivalriesRestricted Content

October 2, 2010
Scott Olson
In this new age of health care, ushered in by President Obama’s signing in March of a sweeping health care reform law, health care players are encouraged to remove the gloves if they want to reap the benefits of reform.
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Building binge hasn't crimped hospital profits

September 22, 2010
J.K. Wall
Indianapolis-area hospitals spent billions on construction in the past decade and increasingly tried to poach patients from one another’s territories. Yet last year—one of the worst economically in recent history—21 of 26 hospitals still were able to show operating profits.
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Community moves to integrate doctors

September 15, 2010
J.K. Wall
Health Care watch videoCommunity Health now has about 550 physicians, either on its payroll or committed through integration contracts, who have some of their pay hinge on measures of quality and communication. CEO Bryan Mills says the hospital system is looking to add even more.
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Expanding hospitals target Bloomington

August 18, 2010
J.K. Wall
Monroe Hospital in Bloomington is the latest target in the statewide buildup by hospital systems. St. Vincent Health, St. Francis and at least one other system have all had talks in the past month with Monroe.
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Medicare driving health care hookups

July 21, 2010
J.K. Wall
The 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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Hospitals map out ways to bypass insurers

July 17, 2010
J.K. Wall
Clarian 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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Community Health Network Foundation names new CEO

March 15, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Michele Thomas Dole has been a wealth adviser at JP Morgan Chase and development director of the IU Foundation.
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Clarian to resume construction at Riley Hospital for Children

January 16, 2010
 IBJ Staff
It’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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Corporations bet on insiders to bend reform

December 30, 2009
J.K. Wall
Indianapolis 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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New Community Hospital East president pursues care for all

October 10, 2009
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
The new president of Community Hospital East says her job is all about health—the health of not just patients, but the entire neighborhood.
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Hospitals, doctors finally integrating patient care

September 26, 2009
J.K. Wall
The stitching together of doctors and hospitals—two groups that historically have kept each other at arm’s length—is a trend picking up speed locally and nationally and could accelerate even further if Congress passes health care reform.
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Lennen, Ledyard named hospital presidents

August 21, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Community Health Network has chosen Anthony Lennen as president of Community Hospital South and Dr. Robin Ledyard as president of Community Hospital East, the health care system announced this morning.
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New health center to carry Jane Pauley's name

August 18, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Community Health Network and the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township will open a new community health center inside the Renaissance School, at 30th Street and Post Road in Indianapolis, the two organizations announced today.
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Reimbursement changes prompt specialists to join hospital payrollsRestricted Content

May 11, 2009
J.K. Wall
Specialist physicians, who have traditionally been fiercely independent, are more and more coming on as employees of hospitals.
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New Community CEO weighs in on system's future, universal careRestricted Content

April 6, 2009
J.K. Wall

IBJ reporter J.K. Wall asked Bryan A. Mills about his new job as Community Health Networks next CEO.

 

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Community Health touts integrated computer systemRestricted Content

February 23, 2009
Community Health Network has spent three years developing a computer interface that allows doctors and nurses to view all information and records on a patient in one viewing program.
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Hospitals seek mergers to save costsRestricted Content

November 17, 2008
J.K. Wall
Marion County hospital systems anticipate more mergers, possibly with each other.
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Hospitals suffer from spiking bond interest rates, investment lossesRestricted Content

November 3, 2008
J.K. Wall
Indianapolis-area hospitals have suffered a double whammy of spiking interest rates on their bonds and heavy losses in their investment portfolios and are trying to save cash any way they can.
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Community Health CEO Corley preparing for 'something different'Restricted Content

June 16, 2008
J.K. Wall
This month, 65-year-old Bill Corley gave his 18 months' notice that he will be retiring as CEO of Community Health Network, the third-largest hospital network based in Indianapolis. Perhaps Community's board of directors needed so much time to replace a man who has held his post so long-nearly 25 years. When Corley arrived in 1984, Community consisted of just one hospital on Indianapolis' east side. Today, it has five.
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