February 11, 2013
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Don Kelso is executive director of the Indiana Rural Health Association. The trade group is trying to help
its members navigate the changes coming from health care reform and the financial pressures being created by federal budget
cuts. The association recently launched a service for its members called SuiteStats, which is data-management software to
help hospital executives identify areas ripe for cost-cutting.
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September 4, 2012
J.K. WallIndianapolis-based St. Vincent Health will manage operations at Monroe Hospital in Bloomington under an agreement announced
on Tuesday. Monroe gives St. Vincent a line of hospitals stretching from Indianapolis to Bedford and even farther south to
Salem and Evansville.
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May 23, 2012
J.K. WallThe merger of Kokomo’s Howard Regional Health System into Indianapolis-based Community Health Network received final
approval Tuesday night.
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October 4, 2011
J.K. WallThe integration of the two not-for-profit hospital systems, approved by Howard Regional's board in late May, is now dead,
the two hospitals announced Monday.
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August 15, 2011
J.K. WallIU Health Morgan Hospital sued Dr. Dianna Boyer on Aug. 3 to stop her from moving her practice to a facility Franciscan St.
Francis Health is building in Martinsville.
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July 16, 2011
J.K. WallNine family-practice doctors are set to leave their large physician group and join Noblesville's Riverview Hospital, more
than tripling their revenue-generating potential.
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July 9, 2011
Marc D. AllanPartnership combines wellness, hospital services.
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June 27, 2011
J.K. WallHelp with physician recruitment is a big factor pushing small-city hospitals into the arms of Indianapolis’ four major
hospital systems. So how do the big boys entice doctors to the small towns?
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June 27, 2011
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Jim Alender has been CEO of Howard Regional Health System in Kokomo since 1997. He recently negotiated a
letter of intent to merge the hospital with Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health. He spoke about the major factors
that led to that decision, and the benefits he hopes to come from it. The deal, which still requires approval from Howard
County officials, could close before the end of this year.
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June 20, 2011
J.K. WallBattered by stagnant population growth and blue-collar job loss, Howard Regional Health is merging with Indiana University
Health—a deal that reflects the challenges faced by hospitals in Indiana’s outlying cities.
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March 2, 2011
J.K. WallCommunity 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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January 5, 2011
J.K. WallMobile medicine has arrived. Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg became the first hospital in Indiana to start
using AirStrip OB, a patient-monitoring system that sends things like the heartbeat waves of patients directly to physicians’
iPhones, BlackBerrys or other mobile devices.
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December 22, 2010
J.K. WallThe merger of Morgan Hospital & Medical Center into Clarian Health got the go-ahead from all parties in the past week,
opening the way for Morgan to bring on new doctors to its facilities.
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December 9, 2010
J.K. WallThe Indianapolis-based hospital system’s board of directors could vote to acquire the 25-bed hospital as early as next
week, but might put off a decision till February.
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August 3, 2010
Tom HartonSatori Pointe is being marketed as a campus where medical offices, fitness-oriented retailers and residents would co-exist.
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January 6, 2010
IBJ StaffLebanon-based hospital system also wants to refinance about $21 million in debt on new medical office building.
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November 14, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe $7.8 million medical office building in McCordsville will allow the hospital to tap patients with private insurance.
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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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November 17, 2008
J.K. WallMarion County hospital systems anticipate more mergers, possibly with each other.
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November 17, 2008
Because major employers in Shelby County have laid off workers, Major Hospital isn't getting as much income from employer-based
medical insurance plans.
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December 10, 2007
J.K. WallClarian Health officials say the only way they can keep operating their medical centers downtown is to support them with profitable
suburban hospitals. So far, it seems Clarian is on the right track. As Clarian moves forward with a new, $180 million hospital
in Fishers, its two existing suburban hospitals are starting to make money.
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July 9, 2007
J.K. WallAggressive expansion plans by Indianapolis' three biggest hospital systems have pushed Greenfield-based Hancock Regional Hospital
to change up its plans to build an outpost of physician offices in northwest Hancock County, near the borders of Marion and
Hamilton counties. But Hancock Regional isn't backing down.
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September 18, 2006
Tom MurphyClarian North Medical Center has stumbled out of the gate, with the Carmel hospital reporting losses in its first six months
of operation that "well exceed" expectations, a new report says.
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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.