July 31, 2010
IBJ StaffLanding the best parking spot doesn't always require getting a big promotion.
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July 26, 2010
J.K. WallMarion County survey finds 80 percent of respondents in debt to local hospitals, with about half saying they were never informed
about the availability
of charity care or payment plans.
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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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July 2, 2010
Scott OlsonAbout $72 million in bids have been awarded so far for the $754 million Wishard Hospital project—ahead of schedule
and under budget, for the time being—including demolition and foundation work.
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July 2, 2010
J.K. WallMore than 100 staff members of Indiana Medical Associates LLC likely will land at one of two area hospital systems. The move
mirrors national and local consolidation of practices with hospitals.
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June 23, 2010
J.K. WallHospitals continued to be a stable and slightly growing source of jobs and wages in Indiana—for better and for worse.
The sector paid $7.3 billion to 127,000 Hoosiers in 2008, according to the latest data from the American Hospital Association.
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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 14, 2010
Gift will be used for a pediatric research facility to better identify how genetic and environmental factors contribute to
diseases in children.
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May 8, 2010
Scott OlsonReplacing the existing Wishard Memorial Hospital is so critical to the well-being of the sickly construction sector that one
industry official likens the project to a "lifeline."
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May 8, 2010
Deeni TaylorThere has been a noticeable uptick in the level of health care real estate development activity this year.
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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. WallIndiana has now received nearly $50 million in federal bucks to digitize health care around the state. But the latest grant—$16
million to the Indiana Health Information Exchange—comes with specific, ambitious goals for health care providers.
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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 30, 2010
Ernest Vargo II's Vargo's top priority will be guiding the foundation's $50 million capital campaign for the construction
of the new, $754 million Wishard Hospital.
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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 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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March 22, 2010
IBJ Staff and Bloomberg NewsDrugmakers and insurers could gain millions of customers under the legislation, but the industry also will pay new fees and
face stricter rules that may shrink profit and fuel mergers.
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March 17, 2010
The city of Indianapolis, which had listed the property for $667,500, had hoped to sell it the former hospital for redevelopment.
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March 17, 2010
J.K. WallHistorically low bond rates will help the parent corporation of Wishard Health Services build hospital for less money
than expected.
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March 16, 2010
J.K. WallSt. Francis Hospital & Health Centers has acquired Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana, a six-doctor practice that
operates in St. Francis' Mooresville hospital.
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March 15, 2010
IBJ StaffMichele Thomas Dole has been a wealth adviser at JP Morgan Chase and development director of the IU Foundation.
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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.